Pietro Frozen Foods, Inc., produces frozen pizzas. For next year, Pietro predicts that 52,900 units will be produced, with the following total costs:

Direct materials	?
Direct labor	54,000
Variable overhead	20,000
Fixed overhead	245,000

Next year, Pietro expects to purchase $121,000 of direct materials. Projected beginning and ending inventories for direct materials and work in process are as follows:

	Direct materials Inventory	Work-in-Process Inventory
Beginning	$7,000	$12,900
Ending	$6,900	$14,900

Next year, Pietro expects to produce 52,900 units and sell 52,200 units at a price of $15.00 each. Beginning inventory of finished goods is $41,500, and ending inventory of finished goods is expected to be $33,000. Total selling expense is projected at $28,500, and total administrative expense is projected at $116,000.

Required:

1. Prepare an income statement in good form. Round the percent to four decimal places before converting to a percentage. For example, .88349 would be rounded to .8835 and entered as 88.35.

Pietro Frozen Foods, Inc.
Income Statement
For the Coming Year
			Percent
		$	%
			%
		$	%
Less operating expenses:
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			%
		$	%

2. What if the cost of goods sold percentage for the past few years was 52.04 percent? Management's reaction might be: