Ken Yalters, the COO of FreshSkin, asked his cost management team for a product line profitability analysis for his firm's two products - Askin and Bskin. The two products are skin care products that require a large amount of research and development and advertising. He received the report below. Ken concluded that Askin was the more profitable product, and that perhaps cost-cutting measures should be applied to the Bskin product. Askin Bskin Total $ 4,015,000 $ 2,607,500 (2,115,000) $ 6,622,500 (4,722,500) $ 1,900,000 Sales Cost of goods sold Gross profit Research and development (2,607,500) $ 1,407,500 $ 492,500 (1,185,000) Selling expenses (137,500) $ 577,500 Profit before taxes Seventy-five percent of the research and development and selling expenses were traceable to Askin. Profit before taxes for the Bskin product, per life-cycle income statements, is:
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