(Forecasting net income) In November of each year, the CFO of Barker Electronics begins the financial forecasting process to determine the firm's projected needs for new financing during the coming year. Barker is a small electronics manufacturing company located in Moline, Illinois, which is best known as the home of the John Deere Company. The CFO begins the process with the most recent year's income statement, projects sales growth for the coming year, and then estimates net income and finally the additional earnings he can expect to retain and reinvest in the firm. The firm's income statement for 2015 follows:

Income Statement
	12/31/2015
Sales	$1,400,000
Cost of goods sold	980,000
Gross profit	$420,000
Operating costs	210,000
Depreciation expense	50,000
Net operating profit	$160,000
Interest expense	11,000
Earnings before taxes	$149,000
Taxes	44,700
Net income	$104,300
Dividends	$20,000
Addition to retained earnings	$84,300

The electronics business has been growing rapidly over the past 18 months as the economy recovers, and the CFO estimates that sales will expand by 18 percent in the next year. In addition, he estimates the following relationships between each of the income statement expense items and sales:

COGS/sales		70%
Operating expenses/sales		15%
Depreciation expense		$50,000
Interest expense		$11,000
Tax rate		30%

Note that for the coming year both depreciation expense and interest expense are projected to remain the same as in 2015.

a. Estimate Barker's net income for 2016 and its addition to retained earnings under the assumption that the firm leaves its dividends paid at the 2015 level.

What is the estimate of Barker's net income for 2016?

b. Reevaluate Barker's net income and addition to retained earnings if sales grow at 36 percent over the coming year. However, this scenario requires the addition of new plant and equipment in the amount of $110,000, which increases annual depreciation to $56,000 per year, and interest expense rises to $16,000.