Alexis Enterprises, an importer and exporter of precious metals and jewelry from around the world, sells its objets d'art to stores in six northeastern states and generates annual sales of $7,500,000. In response to increasing concerns regarding the firm's slow collections and elevated bad-debt ratios, Alexis's treasurer has suggested that the firm change its current collection policy. Specifically, he proposes that the firm progress beyond its current collection efforts-sending late-payment notices and making follow-up telephone calls-and hire an outside professional collection agency. It is expected that the collection agency will cost $40,000 and that the firm's sales and inventory requirements will be unaffected by the policy change. To facilitate the evaluation of this proposal, the treasurer has had his assistant, Mia, collect the following information and has asked you to determine whether or not Alexis should revise its collection policy Current Credit Data Days sales outstanding (DSO)- 95 days Bad-debt losses = 10% of sales Contribution margin = 25% Return earned on any freed funds = 14% Forecasted Data for Revised Collection Policy Days sales outstanding (DSO)-70 days Bad-debt losses 5% of sales Given this data and assuming that the revised collection policy is implemented, complete the following statements: A. Alexis's accounts receivable investment is expected to change by: B. The marginal income earned on any freed funds is expected to be: C. The change in the firm's bad-debt losses is forecast to be: D. The expected net benefit associated with the revised policy is