Receivables: Credit Terms: ABC sold boxes of candles at P1,000 each. Each box costs P750. Daily sales total 500 boxes over its 250-work day year. All sales are on credit. For the coming year, it plans to accept customers who have less desirable credit ratings. Sales are expected to increase by 10%. Average collection period will increase from 40 days to 50 days. Bad debts will increase from 1% to 3% of sales. Operating expenses will stay the same. For profitability analysis, ABC uses an 8% effective interest rate. Compute for the required by filling up the supporting table.
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Receivables: Credit Terms: ABC sold boxes of candles at P1,000 each. Each box costs P750. Daily sales total 500 boxes over its 250-work day year. All sales are on credit. For the coming year, it plans to accept customers who have less desirable credit ratings. Sales are expected to increase by 10%. Average collection period will increase from 40 days to 50 days.
Required: How much would the following be assuming that ABC proceeds with its plan to accept the new market group?
- Increase in gross profit
- Increase in receivables carrying cost
- Increase in bad debts
- Net advantage or disadvantage of the plan
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