M/s Atlantic Company Limited with a turnover of * 4.80 crores is expectinggrowth of 25% for forthcoming year. Average credit period is 90 days. The pastexperience shows that bad debt losses are 1.75% on sales. The Company'sadministering cost for collecting receivable is * 6,00,000It has decided to take factoring services of Pacific Factors on terms that factorwill buy receivable by charging 2% commission and 20% risk with recourse. TheFactor will pay advance on receivables to the firm at 16% interest rate perannum after withholding 10% as reserve.Calculate the effective cost of factoring to the firm. (Assume 360 days in a year).

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