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Chapter 27:

Questions and Problems 5: NPV and Collection Time

Your firm has an average receipt size of $117. A bank has approached you concerning a lockbox service that will decrease your total collection time by two days. You typically receive 6,500 checks per day. The daily interest rate is 015 percent of the bank charges a fee of $160 per day, should the lockbox project be accepted? What would the net annual savings be if the service were adopted?

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Accounts and FinanceQuestions and Problems 5: The average daily collections are the number of checks received times the average value of a check, so: Average daily collections = $1176,500) Average daily collections = $760,500 The present value of the lockbox service is the average daily receipts times the number of days the collection is reduced, so: PV = (2 day reduction ($760,500) PV = $1,521,00...

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