Edith Carolina, president of the Deed Corporation, requires a minimum return on investment of 13% for any project to be undertaken by her company. The company is decentralized, and leaves investment decisions up to the discretion of the division managers as long as the 13% return is expected to be realized. Michael Sanders, manager of the Cosmetics Division, has had a return on investment of 14% for his division for the past 3 years and expects the division to have the same return in the coming year. Sanders has the opportunity to invest in a new line of cosmetics that is expected to have a return on investment of 12%. If the Deed Corporation evaluates managerial performance usingresidual incomebased on thecorporate minimum required rate of return, what will be the preference for taking on the proposed cosmetics line by Edith Carolina and Michael Sanders?

a. Accept, Reject respectively

b. Reject, Accept respectively

c. Accept, Accept respectively

d. Reject, Reject respectively