1 The revenues from the sale of merchandise must be matched with the cost of the merchandise that is sold. 2  Selling, general and administrative expenses (SG&A) . 3  These costs are reported as operating expenses on the income statement because they pertain to operating the main business during that accounting period.
Slender, attractive actress Margaret Avery, spellbinding in her role of Shug in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple (1985), is certainly no one-hit wonder.
The Color Purple was a success at the box office, staying in U.S. theaters for 21 weeks, and grossing over $142 million worldwide. In terms of box office income, it ranked as the #1 rated PG-13 movie released in 1985, and #4 overall.ilmed in Anson and Union counties in North Carolina, the film tells the story of a young African American girl named Celie Harris and shows the problems African American women faced during the early 1900s, including poverty, racism, and sexism.