The Madison Corporation has two identical divisions: Eastern and Southern. Their sales, production volume, and fixed manufacturing costs have been the same for both divisions for the last five years and that information for each are as follows:

	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3	Year 4 year 5
Units produced	100,000	100,000	100,000	100,000	100,000
Units sold	80,000	90,000	110,000	100,000	115,000
Fixed manufacturing costs	$500,000	$500,000	$500,000	$500,000	500,000

Eastern uses absorption costing and Southern uses variable costingand southern uses variable costing. Both use FIFO inventory methods. Variable manufacturing cost are $10 per unit. Both have identicals selling prices and selling and administrative expenses. There were no Year 1 beginning inventories.

Determine the difference in profits for each division for Years 1 through 5. explain why profits differ betweeen two divisions.