hapter 16: Revenue Cycle and Current Accounts Manager e. If the bank loan is use
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hapter 16: Revenue Cycle and Current Accounts Manager e. If the bank loan is used, how much of the trade credit should be replaced? Milwaukee Surgical Supplies, Inc., sells on terms of 3/10, net 30. Gross sales for the year are $1,200,000, and the collections department estimates that 30 percent of the customers pay on the tenth day and take discounts, 40 percent pay on the thirtieth day, and the remaining 30 percent pay, on average, 40 days after the purchase. (Assume 360 days per year.) a. What is the firm's average collection period? b. What is the firm's current receivables balance? c. What would be the firm's new receivables balance if Milwaukee Surgical toughened up on its collection policy, with the result that all nondiscount customers paid on the thirticth day d. Suppose that the firm's cost of carrying receivables was 8 percent annually. How much would the toughened credit policy save the firm in annual reccivables carrying expense? (Assume that the entire amount of receivables had to be financed.)Explanation / Answer
a. What is firms average collection period Customer Days Average Collection period A B C=AXB 30% 10 3 40% 30 12 30% 40 12 Average Collection period 27 b. What is firms receivable balance Average Collection period = Receivable / Sales 27Days = X / 1,200,000 X = 1,200,000 * 27 /360 $ 90,000.00 c. New Receivable balance Customer Days Average Collection period A B C=AXB 30% 10 3 40% 30 12 30% 30 9 Average Collection period 24 Average Collection period = Receivable / Sales 24Days = X / 1,200,000 X = 1,200,000 * 24 /360 $ 80,000.00 d. Savings in Cost of carrying Old Carrying Cost = 90000 * 8% $ 7,200.00 New Carrying Cost = 80000 * 8% $ 6,400.00 Cost Saving = 7200 - 6400 $ 800.00
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