Murkywater Company is considering a lockbox system. Its collection delay is currently 12 days. Reduction in malling time - 1.5 day • Reduction in clearing time = 1.5 day • Reduction in firm processing time=1.0 day • Total-4.0 days . The following is also known: . Dally interest on Treasury bills-0.025% Average number of daily payments to lockboxes = 4,000 Average size of payment - $400 A local bank has agreed to operate this lockbox system for a fee of $0.25 per check processed. What are Murkywater's average daily collections? Multiple Choice $1,000,000 $1,200,000 O $1,400,000 O $1,600,000 $1,800,000

Murkywater Company is considering a lockbox system. Its collection delay is currently 12 days. Reduction in malling time - 1.5 day • Reduction in clearing time = 1.5 day • Reduction in firm processing time=1.0 day • Total-4.0 days . The following is also known: . Dally interest on Treasury bills-0.025% Average number of daily payments to lockboxes = 4,000 Average size of payment - $400 A local bank has agreed to operate this lockbox system for a fee of $0.25 per check processed. What are Murkywater's average daily collections? Multiple Choice $1,000,000 $1,200,000 O $1,400,000 O $1,600,000 $1,800,000

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Cow Chips, Incorporated, a large fertilizer distributor based in California, is planning to use a lockbox system to speed up collections from its customers located on the East Coast A Philadelphia-area bank will provide this service for an annual fee of $12,000 pald at the end of the year plus 5 cents per transaction. The estimated reduction in collection and processing time is one day. Treasury bills are currently yielding 5 percent per year, and there are 365 days per year. If the average customer payment in this region is $5,900, how many customers each day, on average, are needed to make the system profitable for Cow Chips? (Do not round Intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) Number of customers per day
Bird's Eye Treehouses Inc. has determined that a majority of its customers are located in the Winnipeg area. It therefore is considering using a lockbox system offered by a bank in Manitoba. The bank has estimated that use of the system will reduc collection time by 1.5 days. Average number of payments per day 760 Average value of payment $ 770 Variable lockbox fee (per transaction) $ 0.10 Annual interest rate on money market securities 4.0% e-1. What is the NPV of the new lockbox system? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round the final answer to 2 decimal places. Omit "$" sign in your response.) NPV $170558.7 a-2. Should the lockbox project be accepted? 13 Yes No b-1. If there were a fixed charge of $7,000 per year in addition to the variable charge, what is the NPV of the new lockbox system? (Negative amount should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round the final answer to 2 decimal places. Omit "$" sign in your response.) NPV $ b-2.…
Company is considering to establish a line of credit with a local bank to make up for the cash deficit for the next three months. The company expects a 60% chance for a $240,938 deficit and a 40% chance for no deficit at all. The line of credit charges 0.59% of interest rate per month on the amount borrowed plus a commitment fee of $2,500 for a quarter. It also requires a 7% compensation balance for outstanding loans. The company can reinvest any excess cash at an annual rate of 8%. What will the expected cost of establishing a line of credit be? Round your answer to the nearest dollar. (Hint: Refer to a numerical example in short-term financing choices.) Group of answer choices: $5,255 $5,240 $5,251 $5,260 $5,246
Anne Teak, the financial manager of a furniture manufacturer, is considering operating a lockbox system. She forecasts that 220 payments a day will be made to lockboxes with an average payment size of $3,300. The bank’s charge for operating the lockboxes is $0.58 a check. Assume an interest rate of 8% and a 365-day year. What reduction in the time to collect and process each check is needed to justify use of the lockbox system? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
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Anne Teak, the financial manager of a furniture manufacturer, is considering operating a lock-box system. She forecasts that 400 payments a day will be made to lock boxes with an average payment size of $3,000. The bank's charge for operating the lock boxes is $0.50 a check. The interest rate is 0.012% per day. a. If the lock box makes the cash available 2 days earlier, calculate the net daily advantage of the system. Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. b. Is it worthwhile to adopt the system? c. What minimum reduction in the time to collect and process each check is needed to justify use of the lock-box system? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places. a. Net daily advantage b. Is it worthwhile to adopt the system? c. Minimum reduction in time $ Yes (56) 1.39 days
ABC Corporation receives checks from its customers. The total check value averages 700,000 each day. It takes an average of 5 days from deposits for these to clear the bank. If the bank offers to accelerate the 5-day clearing process to 3 days for a monthly fee of 600. If ABC can earn 4% investment income from excess cash, how much is the net annual benefits/cost of this bank offer?
ABC Company is considering to establish a line of credit with a local bank to make up for the cash deficit for the next three months. The company expects a 60% chance for a $273,446 deficit and a 40% chance for no deficit at all. The line of credit charges 0.52% of interest rate per month on the amount borrowed plus a commitment fee of $2,500 for a quarter. It also requires a 9% compensation balance for outstanding loans. The company can reinvest any excess cash at an annual rate of 8%. What will the expected cost of establishing a line of credit be? Round your answer to the nearest dollar. (Hint: Refer to a numerical example in short-term financing choices.) Group of answer choices $5,313 $5,321 $5,304 $5,309 $5,317
A company can issue a 45-day $10 million commercial paper at a rate of 4.50%. It can reduce the rate to 4.35% if it is backed by a standby letter of credit (SBLC). A bank is willing to issue the SBLC for a fee of 10 basis points. The following is true: A The fee for issuing the SBLC is $10,000 B The net savings to the issuer is $1,250 C The amount received by the issuer for the commercial paper without an SBLC is $9,945,625. D The difference in the amount received by the issuer with and without the SBLC is $1,875.
New-Markups Department Store has annual credit sales of $ 300 million. John Harris, the collection manager, has estimated that it takes 10 days for a mailed payment to be credited to Newman’s account and that this time can be cut to 5 days if Newman opens up a lockbox account with a local bank. The account in which the checks are placed earns 8.4% annually. The lockbox agreement calls for a monthly payment of $1,350 and, in addition, a monthly charge of $0.06 per check. Newman’s currently processes 120,000 checks monthly. (Treat these expenses as if they occur at the beginning of the year.) a) What are Newman’s daily sales (assuming a 360-day year) b) By how much will Newman’s average bank balance increase if it adopts the lockbox? c) Should Mr Harris adopt the lockbox ? d) Suppose Newman’s has found a regular 20% of its customers account for 80% of credit sales. Should Mr Harris open up the lockbox and use it only for this 20% of the customers?

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