Problem 7: Regency Rug Repair Company is trying to decide whether it should relax its credit standards. The firm repairs 72,000 rugs per year at an average price of $32 each. Bad-debt expenses are 1% of sales, the average collection period is 40 days, and the variable cost per unit is $28. Regency expects that if it does relax its credit standards, the average collection period will increase to 48 days and that bad debts will increase to 1.5% of sales. Sales will increase by 4,000 repairs per year. If the firm has a required rate of return on equal-risk investments of 14%, what recommendation would you give the firm? Use your analysis to justify your answer. (Note: Use a 365-day year.)

Problem 7: Regency Rug Repair Company is trying to decide whether it should relax its credit standards. The firm repairs 72,000 rugs per year at an average price of $32 each. Bad-debt expenses are 1% of sales, the average collection period is 40 days, and the variable cost per unit is $28. Regency expects that if it does relax its credit standards, the average collection period will increase to 48 days and that bad debts will increase to 1.5% of sales. Sales will increase by 4,000 repairs per year. If the firm has a required rate of return on equal-risk investments of 14%, what recommendation would you give the firm? Use your analysis to justify your answer. (Note: Use a 365-day year.)

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Fitzgerald, Incorporated, currently has an all-cash credit policy. It is considering making a change in the credit policy by going to terms of net 30 days. The required return is .67 percent per month. Price per unit Cost per unit Unit sales per month Current New Policy Policy $170 $173 $ 134 $ 137 1,290 1,320 Calculate the NPV of the decision to change credit policies. (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) NPV Answer is complete but not entirely correct. $ 646.71
H5. Pipe Manufacturing Company (PMC) is debating whether to extend Credit to a particular customer. PMC’s products, primarily used in the manufactured assembly of Motor Vehicles, currently sell for sh. 1,850 per unit. The variable cost is sh. 1,200 per unit. The order under consideration is 12 units today; payment is promised in 30 days. Required:- (i) If there is a 20% chance of default, should PMC fill the order? The required return is 2% per month. This is a One-Time Sale, and the customer will not buy if credit is not extended. (ii) In general terms, how do you think your answer in Part (a) will be affected if the customer will purchase the Merchandise for cash if the credit is refused? The Cash Price is sh. 1,750 per unit. Show proper step by step calculation
Fizzy Animators, Inc. currently makes all sales on credit and offers no cash discount. The firm is considering a 2 percent cash discount for payment within 10 days. The firm's current average collection period is 90 days, sales are currently $1,000,000, variable cost is $600,000 (note the variable cost % is 60%). The firm expects that the change in credit terms will result in an increase in sales to $1,500,000 per year and variable costs will increase to $900,000 per year. Fizzy projects that 80 percent of the sales will take the discount, and the average collection period will drop to 30 days. The firm's required return on equal-risk investments is 10 percent. (Assume a 360-day year.) What is the cost (benefit) of the marginal cash discount? O ($18,000) O $24,000 ($22,000) O $30,000
ABC Limited has annual sales of Rs. 50 lacs. The selling price per unit is Rs. 50 per unit and the variable costs is 70% of the selling price. The required rate of return on investment is 20%, average cost per unit is Rs. 40 per unit. Annual collection expenditure is Rs. 60000 and default % is 5%. The credit terms offered by the company is 60 days. The Company is considering change in the credit policy and the expected impact is as follows: Option 1 Collection Period: 45 days Collection expenditure:75000 Default%: 3% Option 2 Collection Period: 30 days Collection expenditure: 140000 Default%: 1% Advise the company on the selection of the Options.
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1. Assume that due to a recession, Polaski Company expects to sell only 33,000 Rets through regular channels next year. A large retail chain has offered to purchase 7,000 Rets if Polaski is willing to accept a 16% discount off the regular price. There would be no sales commissions on this order; thus, variable selling expenses would be slashed by 75%. However, Polaski Company would have to purchase a special machine to engrave the retail chain’s name on the 7,000 units. This machine would cost $14,000. Polaski Company has no assurance that the retail chain will purchase additional units in the future. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the special order? (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.) 2. Refer to the original data. Assume again that Polaski Company expects to sell only 33,000 Rets through regular channels next year. The U.S. Army would like to make a one-time-only purchase of 7,000 Rets. The Army would pay a fixed fee of $1.60 per…
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Use the following information to answer questions 19 through 30: Currently, OET Corporation sells 350,000 units of widgets a month at a price of $21 a unit. The company currently has a net 30 credit policy. Mr. Ent, the company's financial manager, is evaluating a new credit policy of net 60 for the company. The marketing manager thinks that sales would increase by 10,000 units per month if the company were to switch to the new credit policy. The APR for OET is 13% compounded monthly, and its variable cost per widget is $12. Ignore taxes. Tomorrow, Mr. Ent will be making a presentation on the new proposed credit policy to the CEO of OET. He will be expected to provide answers to the following questions Describe how you would calculate the net present value of the proposed credit policy switch.
4- A manufacturer currently prices its product at 10 TL per unit. Last year, the manufacturer sold 60.000 units. The variable cost per unit is 6 TL. Total fixed costs are 120.00O TL. The manufacturer intends to increase sales by 5%. Current accounts receivable collection period is 30 days. If the manufacturer wants to relax its credit standards, the expectation is that bad debt expenses will increase from 1% of sales to 2% of sales. The opportunity cost of investing in accounts receivables is 15%. In order to benefit from relaxing its credit standards, what would be the expected maximum accounts receivable collection period? (Assume that existing customers are not expected to alter their payment habits. 1 year = 365 days) 82,38 days 63,33 days 105,82 days O 63,73 days

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