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I have found many different solutions to this questions here on Chegg, and all of them give different answers, so I am very confused, as to how an accurate solution of this question would look. Could you explain why there are so many different solutions as well?
Lemon Brothers, a large Lemon distributor in the U.S., is selling
50,000 tons per year on credit at an average selling price of $1000
per ton. The average customer payment is for purchasing 0.055-
ton lemons per customer. Treasury bills are currently yielding 5
percent per year. The current credit term of Policy 1 is net 30(no
cash discount) and the customers, on average, pay 4 days overdue.
The company is considering offering an alternative credit term of
210, net 30(Policy 2) and anticipates that 20 percent of its
customer will take advantage of the discounts. Policy 2 will reduce
the collection period to 28 days, assuming 365 days a year.
Alternatively, the company can use a short-term financing from
Silicon Bank charging an annual interest rate of 40 percent on the
short-term loans.
The company is factoring all receivables immediately at a 2
percent discount. It is also considering opening a lockbox
perpetually in Silicon Bank that provides this service for an annual
fee of $25,000 plus 10 cents per check cleared for each purchase.
The lockbox will make cash available to the company one day
earlier than the current case.
Requirements:
a) What are the average receivables under Policy 1 and Policy 2?
marks]
b) Under Policy 1, what is the effective annual cost of factoring
assuming that default is extremely unlikely.
[5 marks]
c) Under Policy 2, what is the average collection period for those
customers who do not take the discount?
[3 marks]
d) Under Policy 2, what is the implied interest charged on the
payment of an average customer paid within 30 days?
[3 marks]
e) Should the company adopt Policy 2 or use the short-term
financing provided by Silicon Bank?
[5 marks]
f) How many customer purchases are needed each day to make the
lockbox service affordable for the company?
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