Milano Gallery purchases the copyright on an oil painting for $480,000 on January 1, 2017. The copyright legally protects its owner for 12 more years. The company plans to market and sell prints of the original for 19 years. Prepare entries to record the purchase of the copyright on January 1, 2017, and its annual amortization on December 31, 2017.

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east west sales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 ) the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss)