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

	Small Appliances Division	Cleaning Products Division
Sales	$34,600,000	$31,350,000
Operating income	2,762,000	1,252,200
Operating assets, January 1	6,396,000	5,700,000
Operating assets, December 31	7,530,000	6,250,000

Forchen, Inc., requires an 8 percent minimum rate of return.

Required:

1. Calculate residual income for the Small Appliances Division.

$

2. Calculate residual income for the Cleaning Products Division.

$

3. What if the minimum required rate of return was 9 percent? How would that affect the residual income of the two divisions?

Small Appliances Division residual income would be: lower, higher, or unaffected
Cleaning Products Division residual income would be: lower, higher or unaffected