Hayworth corporation has just segmented last year's income statement into its ten product lines. the chief executive officer (ceo) is curious as to what effect dropping one of the product lines at the beginning of last year would have had on overall company profit. what is the best number for the ceo to look at to determine the effect of this elimination on the net operating income of the company as a whole?

Consider a firm with a contract to sell an asset for $149,000 four years from now. the asset costs $85,000 to produce today. a. given a relevant discount rate of 14 percent per year, calculate the profit the firm will make on this asset. (a loss should be indicated by a minus sign. do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) b. at what rate does the firm just break even?