After addressing these questions, your direct supervisor comes to you with a small project for analysis. The manager of the manufacturing department is trying to decide if a plant 100 miles from corporate headquarters should continue to operate or shut down resulting in the discontinuance of a product line. You are presented with the following information and questions:

Identify two pieces of financial information that would be relevant to the decision. Also, identify two pieces of financial information that would not be relevant to the decision. Finally, what are two pieces of nonfinancial information that would be relevant to the decision.

The manager provides you with two financial statements - a traditional income statement and a contribution margin income statement. What are the fundamental decisions between the two types of statements?