Palm Furniture Makes Beach-Themed Furniture

Multiple Choice

Palm Furniture makes beach-themed furniture. In the prior-year, the unit selling price for a dining set was $1,000 with a unit variable cost of $400 and a unit fixed cost of $200 based on prior production and sales of 5,000 dining sets. For the current year, Palm Furniture is planning to increase the unit selling price to $1,100 since the unit variable cost is increasing 20%. Assuming that at the higher selling price, the company feels that sales may decrease to 4,500 dining sets, what profit will Palm Furniture expect to recognize in the current year?

A) $1,790,000
B) $1,890,000
C) $2,790,000
D) $3,160,000