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- June 4, 2014 at 3:22 pm #173768
Good day,
If a company has revenue of $5,000,000.00 and is proposing to offer a 1% discount and it will result in 1/4 of the debtors taking up the discount which will result in debtor days being reduced from 50 days to 30 days.
Would I need to calculate a revised revenue so as to calculate the revised receivable?.
June 5, 2014 at 10:12 am #174137The examiner always allows either – you could either base your receivables calculations on $5M or on $5M less the discount.
(The difference will be pretty small always anyway)
June 5, 2014 at 10:20 am #174142Thank you.
I was very anxious for this answer as i see where the original value of receivables was used in the answer.However in my mind the fact that in reality a discount is on Sales which means that customer will pay less, therefore amounts receivable will automatically less, unless there is additional sales volume or adjustment to selling price then sales revenue will fall.
Thanks again
June 5, 2014 at 6:29 pm #174372You are welcome 🙂
June 5, 2014 at 6:57 pm #174382However in my mind the fact that in reality a discount is on Sales which means that customer will pay less, therefore amounts receivable will automatically less, unless there is additional sales volume or adjustment to selling price then sales revenue will fall.
June 8, 2014 at 8:13 am #175141I agree with you.
However, as I wrote before, the examiner allows either way (in some of his answers he subtracts the discount, and in some he does not). - AuthorPosts
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