The Beatrice company has two divisions, North and South, both of which are treated as investment centers. The following information was collected from the divisions' 2019 financial statements: North South Net operating income (in $ thousands) 19456 9849 Sales (in $ thousands) 188469 82455 End of year operating assets (in $ thousands) 59338 36484 Variable cost (in $ thousands) 78832 44638 Average selling price per unit 11.84 11.1 For simplicity, assume end of year, rather than average, assets are used in all relevant calculations. Beatrice's cost of capital is 0.105.Another decision under consideration would increase operating prot of the South division by $593 thousand and operating assets by $565 thousand. Assume the manager of South division is evaluated based on R01. Wouid the South manager choose to do what is in Beatrice's best interest in making this decision? {Answer 2 for yesr t for no.) Assume that the manager of North division has the opportunity at the end of the year to hide 2% of the division's xed costs by deferring them until next year [e.g.. by delaying maintenance activities]. How much would this increase the division's RI? (in $ thousands}