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.
For other uses, see The Color Purple (disambiguation). The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name.