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- Your firm has an average receipt size of $60. A bank has approached you concerning a lockbox service that will decrease your total collection time by 2 days. You typically receive 8,500 checks per day. The daily interest rate is 0.02 percent. If the bank charges a fee of $190 per day, what is the NPV of the lockbox project? What would the net annual savings be if the service were adopted?Use this information for questions 9 to 12: You are put in charge of starting a credit card business for a bank. This is what you've learned so far: Your boss wants you to get to $10 million in outstanding loans within a year. It costs you $75,000 a year to employ a risk officer to approve or deny loan applications. You need two loan collectors, paid $50,000 each. Your salary is $125,000 a year. The bank is paying depositors 1%, in line with the inflation rate. You can change the credit card interest rate any time you want. You expect 6% of your customers to default each year. 9. You need to charge your credit card customers % to cover the costs of running the business. 10. Yes No. You need to charge your customers to cover the risk of a rise in future inflation. 11. You expect your dollar losses for customer defaults to be $ a year. 12. The minimum amount you need to charge the credit card customers per year to break even is: (A) (B) 8% 10% (C) (D) 12% 15%Anne Teak, the financial manager of a furniture manufacturer, is considering operating a lock-box system. She forecasts that 800 payments a day will be made to lock boxes with an average payment size of $3,000. The bank’s charge for operating the lock boxes is $0.50 a check. The interest rate is 0.015% per day. a. If the lock box makes the cash available 2 days earlier, calculate the net daily advantage of the system. (Do not round intermediate calculations.) b. Is it worthwhile to adopt the system? (Yes/No) c. What minimum reduction in the time to collect and process each check is needed to justify use of the lock-box system? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
- Anne Teak, the financial manager of a furniture manufacturer, is considering operating a lock-box system. She forecasts that 700 payments a day will be made to lock boxes with an average payment size of $3,500. The bank’s charge for operating the lock boxes is $0.50 a check. The interest rate is 0.011% per day. a. If the lock box makes the cash available 2 days earlier, calculate the net daily advantage of the system. (Do not round intermediate calculations.) Anne Teak, the financial manager of a furniture manufacturer, is considering operating a lock-box system. She forecasts that 700 payments a day will be made to lock boxes with an average payment size of $3,500. The bank’s charge for operating the lock boxes is $0.50 a check. The interest rate is 0.011% per day. a. If the lock box makes the cash available 2 days earlier, calculate the net daily advantage of the system. (Do not round intermediate calculations.)Anne Teak, the financial manager of a furniture manufacturer, is considering operating a lock-box system. She forecasts that 400 payments a day will be made to lock boxes with an average payment size of $3,000. The bank's charge for operating the lock boxes is $0.50 a check. The interest rate is 0.012% per day. a. If the lock box makes the cash available 2 days earlier, calculate the net daily advantage of the system. Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. b. Is it worthwhile to adopt the system? c. What minimum reduction in the time to collect and process each check is needed to justify use of the lock-box system? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places. a. Net daily advantage b. Is it worthwhile to adopt the system? c. Minimum reduction in time $ Yes (56) 1.39 daysYou must show your work in order to receive credit for participation: >>> On average, a firm collects checks totaling $250,000 per day. It takes the firm approximately 4 days from the day the checks were mailed until they result in usable cash for the firm. Assume that (1) a lockbox system could be employed which would reduce the cash conversion procedure to 2 1/2 days and (2) the firm could invest any additional cash generated at 6% after taxes. The lockbox system would be a good buy if it costs $25,000 annually. a. True b. False
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