Calderon Corporation produces and sells a single product. Data concerning that product appear below:

	Per Unit		Percent of Sales
Selling price	$	300	100%
Variable expenses		48	16%
Contribution margin	$	252	84%

Fixed expenses are $220,000 per month. The company is currently selling 1,700 units per month.

Management is considering using a new component that would increase the unit variable cost by $61. Since the new component would improve the company's product, the marketing manager predicts that monthly sales would increase by 500 units.

Required:

What should be the overall effect on the company's monthly net operating income of this change if fixed expenses are unaffected? (Negative amount should be indicated by a minus sign. Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

Change in net operating income

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