Exam 18: Short Term Finance and Planning

High Point Hotel (HPH) has $218,000 in accounts receivable. To finance a major purchase, the company assigns these receivables to Cross Town Bank. Which one of the following statements correctly describes this transaction?

Metal Products Co. has an inventory period of 94.2 days, an accounts payable period of 40.4 days, and an accounts receivable turnover rate of 17.6. What is the length of the cash cycle?

Which one of these will decrease the cash cycle, all else held constant?

Plant Mart has a beginning receivables balance on February 1 of $1,648. Sales for February through May are $2,670, $2,940, $3,820, and $4,450, respectively. The accounts receivable period is 15 days. What is the amount of the April collections? Assume a year has 360 days.

Kid's Delight expects to sell $135,900 of toys in December, $64,700 in January, $74,400 in February, and $56,800 in March. The wholesale cost is 58 percent of the retail price. The receivables period is 30 days, the payables period is 60 days, and all inventory is purchased one month prior to selling it. What is the accounts payable balance at the end of February? Assume a year has 360 days.

Nadine's Boutique has an accounts payable period of 30 days. Sales of $3,300, $3,400, $4,600, and $4,100 are expected for Quarters 1 through 4, respectively. The cost of goods sold is equal to 62 percent of the next quarter's sales. The accounts payable balance is $975 as of the beginning of Quarter 1. What is the amount of the projected cash disbursements for accounts payable for Quarter 2 of next year? Assume a year has 360 days.

The Box Store has a beginning cash balance of $318 on March 1. Projected sales are $720 for February, $850 for March, and $980 for April. The cost of goods sold is equal to 57 percent of sales with goods being purchased one month prior to the month of sale. The accounts payable period is 45 days and the accounts receivable period is 20 days. The firm has monthly cash expenses of $274. What is the projected ending cash balance at the end of March? Assume every month has 30 days.

The Sports Store has a beginning receivables balance on January 1 of $2,640. Sales for January through April are $3,440, $3,590, $2,690, and $4,720, respectively. The accounts receivable period is 45 days. How much did the store collect in the month of April? Assume a year has 360 days.

Which one of the following actions will tend to increase the inventory period?

The length of time between the sale of inventory and the collection of the payment for that sale is called the:

The length of time between the purchase of inventory and the receipt of cash from the sale of that inventory is called the:

The Corner Store factors all of its receivables immediately at a discount rate of 1.1 percent. The average collection period is 37.4 days and default is unlikely. What is the effective cost of borrowing?

North Side Wholesalers has sales of $1,648,900. The cost of goods sold is equal to 71 percent of sales and the average inventory is $75,800. How many days on average does it take to sell the inventory?

With a compromise financial policy companies will:

A company:

Which one of the following will decrease the operating cycle?

Assume each month has 30 days and a company has a 30-day accounts receivable period. During the second calendar quarter of the year, that company will collect payment for the sales it made during which of the following months?

The operating cycle describes how a product:

Which one of these affects the length of the cash cycle but not the operating cycle?

The Purple House has projected sales of $38,000, $47,500, $52,700, and $85,000 for Quarters 1 through 4 of next year, respectively. Inventory is purchased at 58 percent of the sales price and is purchased one quarter prior to the quarter of sale. The accounts payable period is 45 days. The accounts payable balance at the beginning of the year is $72,000. What is the amount of the expected disbursements for the third quarter?