Pharmaceutical firms, oil and gas companies, and other ventures inevitably incur costs on unsuccessful investments in new projects (e.g., new drugs or new wells). For oil and gas firms, a debate continues over whether those costs should be written off as period expense or capitalized as part of the full cost of finding profitable oil and gas ventures. For pharmaceutical firms, GAAP in the United States is clear that R&D costs are to be expensed when incurred. Pharm-lt has been writing R&D costs off to expense as incurred for both financial reporting and internal performance measurement. However, this year a new management team was hired to improve the profit of Pharma-It's Cardiology Division. The new management team was hired with the provision that it would receive a bonus equal to 10 percent of any profits in excess of base-year profits of the division. However, no bonus would be paid if profits were less than 20 percent of end-of-year investment. The following information was included in the performance report for the division This Year Base Year Base Year $21,500,000 $21,000,000 Sales revenues Costs incurred 0 3,800,000 R&D Expense Depreciation and other 3,650,000 3,500,000 amortization 8,300,000 8,000,000 Other costs 9,550,000 5,700,000 $3,850,000 Division profit End-of-year investment $40,500,000 a $34,500,000 a Includes other investments not at issue here. During the year, the new team spent s5 million on R&D activities, of which $4.500.000 was for unsuccessful ventures. The new management team has included the $4,500,00 in the current ones." investment base because "You can't invent successful drugs without missing on a few unsuccessful Required: (Round your answers to 1 (a) What is the Rol for the base year and the current year? ignore taxes. decimal place.) f R&D is expensed: ROI Base year Current year