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.
Provided by Rovi. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), a Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude to her brutal husband, sharecropper Albert (Danny Glover).