The CEO has promised that any increase in revenues from investments in 2008 will go toward increasing the R&D budget. Assume that revenues from investments increase by 40% from 2007 to 2008, and that these additional funds are the only change to the R & D budget. By what percent does the R & D budget increase?

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east west sales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 ) the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss)