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Part 1
Float Simon Corporation has daily cash receipts of
$64,000.
A recent analysis of its collections indicated
that customers' payments were in the mail an average of
2.5
days. Once received, the payments are processed in
3
days. After payments are deposited, it takes an average
of
3
days for these receipts to clear the banking system.
a. How much collection float (in days) does the firm
currently have?
b. If the firm's opportunity cost is
11%,
would it be economically advisable for the firm to pay an annual
fee of
$16,800
for a lockbox system to reduce collection float by
4
days?c. What would the company's opportunity cost have to
be to make the
$16,800
fee worthwhile?
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Part 1
a. The amount of collection float (in days) the firm
currently has is
enter your response here
days. (Round to one decimal place.)
Part 2
b. The cost savings if the firm adopts the lockbox system
is
$enter your response here.
(Round to the nearest dollar.)
Part 3
Would it be economically advisable for the firm to pay an annual
fee of
$16,800
to reduce collection float by
4
days?The firm
▼
should
should not
accept the proposal because the savings is
▼
greater
less
than the costs. (Select from the drop-down menus.)
Part 4
c. To make the
$16,800
fee worthwhile, the company's opportunity cost would
have to be
enter your response here%.
(Round to two decimal places.)
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