Practice prompt · Q:statement-presentation-comprehensive-income-and-disclosure/multiple-step-subtotals-001

Place items at the right subtotal

Tests whether the learner separates the cost of goods sold from period costs when building gross profit and operating income.

Updated Aug 18, 2026 Review due Nov 18, 2026
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Net sales are 900,000, and cost of goods sold is 585,000. The cost figure already includes 12,000 of freight paid to bring purchased inventory in. Delivery freight is 18,000. Sales salaries are 96,000, administrative salaries are 74,000, and interest expense is 21,000.

Freight is the item that separates the two subtotals most often. Freight in is a cost of the goods and sits above gross profit; freight out is a cost of selling them and sits below it.

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Answer: a

Choice a. Gross profit is 315,000; operating income is 315,000 less 18,000, 96,000, and 74,000, or 127,000.