Political decision making tends to be biased toward the adoption of programs that have current costs and future benefits that are both easily observable. future costs that are difficult to identify and current benefits that are easily observable. future costs and future benefits that are both difficult to identify. current costs that are easily observable and future benefits that are difficult to identify.

Advanced enterprises reports year-end information from 2018 as follows: sales (160,250 units) $968,000 cost of goods sold 641,000 gross margin 327,000 operating expenses 263,000 operating income $64,000 advanced is developing the 2019 budget. in 2019 the company would like to increase selling prices by 14.5%, and as a result expects a decrease in sales volume of 9%. all other operating expenses are expected to remain constant. assume that cost of goods sold is a variable cost and that operating expenses are a fixed cost. should advanced increase the selling price in 2019?