Carbon Industries, Inc., is considering buying new equipment to use in the manufacture of its product. The new machines, which would increase production capacity, would also require annual fixed costs of \(\$ 480,000\). Carbon expects variable costs to go down with more efficient use of materials and fewer direct labor hours. Those savings would be offset in part by higher variable manufacturing overhead costs related to machine maintenance. The net effect of the changes would be a \(20 \%\) reduction overall in Carbon's variable manufacturing costs. Total sales are not expected to change in 2005. If the company does not buy the new machines, it expects the following next year:

If Carbon does buy the new equipment, what will be the net income next year?

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Sales revenue Variable costs Fixed costs $8,000,000 70% of sales $1,600.000