Diego Company manufactures one product that is sold for $72 per unit in two geographic regions-East and West. The following information pertains to the company's first year of operations in which it produced 55,000 units and sold 50,000 units. The company sold 37,000 units in the East region and 13,000 units in the West region. It determined $290,000 of its fixed selling and administrative expense is traceable to the West region, $240,000 is traceable to the East region, and the remaining $77,000 is a common fixed expense. The company will continue to incur the total amount of its fixed manufacturing overhead costs as long as it continues to produce any amount of its only product. 12. If the company produces 5,000 fewer units than it sells in its second year of operations, will absorption costing net operating income be higher or lower than variable costing net operating income in Year 2? Higher Lower