(Related to Checkpoint 18.2) (Calculating the cash conversion cycle) Network Solutions just introduced a new, fully automated manufacturing plant that produces 2,000 wireless routers per day with materials costs of $45 per router and no other costs. The average number of days a router is held in inventory before being sold is 54 days. In addition, they generally pay their suppliers in 16 days, while collecting from their customers after 27 days. a. What is the cash conversion cycle? b. What would happen to the cash conversion cycle if they could stretch their payments to suppliers from 16 days to 36 days? c. How much would working capital be reduced if they stretched their payments to suppliers from 16 days to 36 days? a. The cash conversion cycle is days. (Round to the nearest whole number.)

The company bought raw materials on account and then paid for them within 30 days.  They used the raw materials to make a product that they sold on account 100 days after the purchase of the raw materials.  Their customer paid for the finished good 60 days later.  How many days long is the firm's cash conversion cycle?

A CARDBOARD BOX FACTORY pays its suppliers 40 days after making the purchase and receiving the goods. The average collection period is 45 days, i.e. its customers settle their debt with the company in that time; and the average inventory age is based on the inventory turnover which is 10 times a year. The company spends about $1.23 million in operating cycle investments. With this data we need to calculate: The operating cycle.The cash conversion cycle.The cash turnover.The minimum cash balance.You plan to make modifications to your policies so that you can decrease your PPC by 10 days, and decrease your EPI by 2 times (before converting it to days). Negotiations with your supplier have been unsuccessful and the payment term has been reduced by 10 days. With these data you have to calculate: Re-calculate the Operating Cycle, the SCC, RC and SMC introducing the proposed changes.Calculate the opportunity cost that the changes will cause, if the company's interest rate is 8%.

Rahim Afrooz is a leading producer of automobile batteries. It turns out 1,500 batteries a day at a cost of Tk. 6 per battery for materials and labor. It takes the firm 22 days to convert raw materials into the battery. It allows its customers 40 days in which to pay for the batteries and the firm generally pays its suppliers in 30 days. a) What is the length of cash conversion cycle? b) If the firm always produces and sales 1,500 batteries a day, what amount of working capital must it finance? c) By what amount would the firm reduce its working capital financing needs if it was able to stretch its payables deferral period to 35 days?