MAS311 Financial Management Exercises On Accounts Receivable Management and Inventory Management
MAS311 Financial Management Exercises On Accounts Receivable Management and Inventory Management
MAS311 Financial Management Exercises On Accounts Receivable Management and Inventory Management
1. Industries has sales of $100,000 and accounts receivable of $11,500, and it gives its
customers 30 days to pay. The industry average DSO is 27 days, based on a 365-day
year. If the company changes its credit and collection policy sufficiently to cause its
DSO to fall to the industry average, and if it earns 8.0% on any cash freed-up by this
change, how would that affect its net income, assuming other things are held constant?
a. 267.34
b. 281.41
c. 296.22
d. 328.22
2. Queen Corporation sells on terms 2/10. n/30. 70% of customers normally avail of the
discounts. Annual sales are P900,000, 80% of which is made on credit. Cost is
approximately 75% of sales.
3. Joker Corporation makes credit sales of P2,160,000 per annum. The average age of
accounts receivable is 30 days. Management considers shortening credit terms by 10
days. Cost of money is 18%.
Required: How much will the company save from financing charges? Assume a 360-day
year.
King Company considers changing its credit terms from n/30 to 4/10, n/30. The
following are expected to result in (1) 30% of its customers will take advantage of the
discount; (2) sales will remain constant; and (3) the collection period is expected to
decrease to two months.
Should King Company adopt the proposed discount policy? Show analysis.
Jack considers relaxing its credit standards by granting extension of credit terms. The
following are the expected results: (1) sales will increase by 25%; (2) collection costs will
increase by P40,000; (3) bad debt losses are expected to be 5% of the incremental sales;
and (4) collection period will increase to 4 months.
6. Butterfly Company’s current sales are all on credit and amount to P750,000 a year. The
firm has fixed costs of P100,000 and variable costs of 85% of sales. Butterfly has excess
capacity which would permit it to expand sales without incurring additional fixed costs.
One means of expanding sales is to grant credit of net 90 days to applicants who have
been turned down in the past. The credit manager has prepared several estimates for each
of three risks classes of applicants.
Required:
a) What are the marginal pre-tax profits for each risk class?
b) Which risk classes, if any, should Butterfly accept as new credit customer?
7. Fruitcake specialist sells 36,000 fruit cakes annually. Annual carrying costs are P5 per
fruit cake and the ordering costs are P100 per order. The firm has decided to maintain a
safety stock of one month’s sales or 3,000 fruitcakes. The delivery time per order is 5
days. Assume a 365 day year.
a. What is the economic order quantity (EOQ) for the ice cream?
b. What is the average inventory?
c. What is the total inventory cost for the month?
d. What is the optimal length of the inventory cycle?
e. How many orders will be placed each month?