BELLE has two departments - hardware and software, within its retail business. The most recent monthly data are as follows: Hardware ($) .......... Software ($) Sales .200,000..........100,000 Variable expenses......... 120,000...........80,000 Fixed expenses...........140,000..........40,000 BELLE is considering shutting down software departments for which they expect that a 10% reduction of sales will occur at hardware department. The manager has also indicated that $20,000 fixed expenses will continue to incur even if software department is shut down. Required: (7 marks) - (a) Should BELLE continue with the operation of software department or shut down? Select an option Select an option OK we used 0 of 1 attempt Save