Chapter 19, Problem 12QP

Calculating Transactions Required [LO2] Cow Chips, Inc., 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 $7,500 plus 10 cents per transaction. The estimated reduction in collection and processing time is one day. If the average customer payment in this region is $4,100, how many customers each day, on average, are needed to make the system profitable for Cow Chips? Treasury bills are currently yielding 4 percent per year, and there are 365 days per year.