Forchen, Inc., provided the following information for two of its divisions for last year:

	Small Appliances Division	Cleaning Products Division
Sales	$34,610,000	$31,330,000
Operating income	2,534,800	1,252,600
Operating assets, January 1	6,391,000	5,620,000
Operating assets, December 31	7,500,000	6,300,000

Forchen, Inc., requires an 6 percent minimum rate of return.

Required:

1. Calculate residual income for the Small Appliances Division.

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2. Calculate residual income for the Cleaning Products Division.

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3. What if the minimum required rate of return was 7 percent? How would that affect the residual income of the two divisions?

Small Appliances Division residual income would be	higher.lower.unaffected.
Cleaning Products Division residual income would be	higher.lower.unaffected.