Consider the following simplified financial statements for the Wims Corporation (assuming no income taxes):     Income Statement Balance Sheet   Sales $23,000     Assets $10,900     Debt $4,400     Costs 13,900         Equity 6,500     Net income $9,100     Total $10,900     Total $10,900     The company has predicted a sales increase of 10 percent. It has predicted that every item on the balance sheet will increase by 10 percent as well.   Create the pro forma statements and reconcile them. What is the plug variable here?

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Consider the following simplified financial statements for the Wims Corporation (assuming no income taxes):

 

  Income Statement Balance Sheet
  Sales $23,000     Assets $10,900     Debt $4,400  
  Costs 13,900         Equity 6,500  
  Net income

$9,100  

  Total

$10,900  

  Total

$10,900  

 
The company has predicted a sales increase of 10 percent. It has predicted that every item on the balance sheet will increase by 10 percent as well.

 

Create the pro forma statements and reconcile them. What is the plug variable here?

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