Cash & Credit Supermarket Inc. currently asks its credit customers to pay by the end of the month after the month of delivery. In practice, customers take rather longer to pay – on average 70 days. Sales revenue amounts to ₱ 8 million a year and bad debts to ₱ 20,000 a year. The company planned to offer customers a cash discount of 2% for payment within 30 days. Cash & Credit Supermarket estimates that 50% of customers will accept this facility but that the remaining customers, who tend to be slow payers, will not pay until 80 days after the sale. At present the business has an overdraft facility at an interest rate of 12% a year. If the plan goes ahead, bad debts will be reduced to ₱ 10,000 a year and there will be savings in credit administration expenses of ₱ 6,000 a year. (Use 360 days) How much is the net cost/benefit of the proposed policy?Required to answer. Single choice. (Ignore income taxes in this problem.) The Jason Company is considering the purchase of a machine that will increase revenues by P32,000 each year. Cash outflows for operating this machine will be P6,000 each year. The cost of the machine is P65,000. It is expected to have a useful life of five years with no salvage value. For this machine, the simple rate of return is
Cash & Credit Supermarket Inc. currently asks its credit customers to pay by the end of the month after the month of delivery. In practice, customers take rather longer to pay – on average 70 days. Sales revenue amounts to ₱ 8 million a year and
How much is the net cost/benefit of the proposed policy?Required to answer. Single choice.
(Ignore income taxes in this problem.) The Jason Company is considering the purchase of a machine that will increase revenues by P32,000 each year.
For this machine, the simple
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