Frieden Company's contribution format income statement for last month is shown below: Sales (35,000 units} $100,000 Variable expenses 490 , O [)0 Contribution margin 2 10 , Cl 00 Fixed expenses 139 , U [)0 Operating income $ 2 l , 1 00 Competition is intense, and Frieden Compa ny's prots waryI considerably from one year to the next. Management is exploring opportunities to increase profitability. Required: 1. Frieden's management is considering a major upgrade to the manufacturing equipment. which would result in xed expenses increasing by $210,000 per month. However, variable expenses would decrease by $6 per unit. Selling price would not change. Prepare two contribution format income statements. one showing current operations and one showing how operations would appear if the upgrade is completed. Show an Amount column, a Per Unit column. and a Percentage column on each statement. 2. Refer to the income statements in requirement1 above. For both current operations and the proposed new operations, compute [a] the degree of operating leverage. (b) the break-even point in dollars. and (c) the margin of safety in both dollar and percentage terms. a. b. _I_ -I_ _I_ _I_ 3-3. Calculate the unit sales per month at which Frieden management will be indifferent between doing the major upgrade to the manufacturing equipment and not doing the upgrade. 3-b. Based on the above analysisI should Frieden proceed with the major upgrade? 0 Yes 0 No 3-:. ii'iihyr or why not? In this case.the indifference point the current level of Eli-35 at which point the upgarde have an impact on the operating income. 30 Frieden's proceed to upgrade. 4-3. Refer to the original data. Instead of doing the major upgrade to the equipment, management is considering introducing a new advertising campaign that will increase xed expenses by $38,000 per month. Management believes the new advertisements will increase monthly unit sales by 20%. In this case what would be imapact on operating income. _::| 4-b. Should Frieden proceed with the new advertising campaign? 0 Yes O No