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 is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker who 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. Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on the life of African-American women in the Southern United States in the 1930s, addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture. The novel has been the frequent target of