Flingers Inc They Plan to Aggressively Pursue Cost Savings in the Purchasing

Flingers Inc. reveals the following information in their annual report for FY 2017
$$\begin{array}{l}\text { Earnings and Expenses }\\\begin{array} { | l | c | } \hline \text { Sales } & \$ 10,000,000 \\\hline \text { Cost of goods sold } & \$ 5,000,000 \\\hline \text { Pretaxearnings } & \$ 500,000 \\\hline & \\\hline \text { Selected Balance Sheet Items } & \\\hline \text { Merchandise inventory } & \$ 80,000 \\\hline \text { Total assets } & \$ 2,000,000 \\\hline\end{array}\end{array}$$ They plan to aggressively pursue cost savings in the purchasing area for FY 2018 and expect to lower their cost of goods sold by 8% while maintaining the same level of sales. Calculate Flingers' leverage effect for 2017and their expected leverage effect for 2018. Compare the two results for your leverage effect calculations and provide insight as their relative magnitude.