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Wallace Co has annual credit sales of $4,500,000 and an average customer takes 60 days to pay, assuming a 360-day year. As a result, Wallace Co has a trade receivables balance of $750,000. The company relies on an overdraft to finance this at annual interest rate at 10%.
Wallace Co is considering offering an early settlement discount of 1% for payment in 30 days. It expected that 25% of its customers (representing 35% of the annual credit sales figures) will pay in 30 days in order to obtain the discount.
If Wallace Co introduces the proposed discount, what will be the NET impact?
Answer: 2625 cost
Reduction in receivables = 4,500,000 x 30/360 x 35% = 131250
Alternatively: average receivables days will fall to (60 x 0.65) + (30 x 0.35) = 49.5 days which is a reduction of 10.5 days.Please can you explain where 60 x 0.65 and 30 x 0.35 came from?
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It states that Wallace customers take 60 days to pay in the first paragraph then it says that
Wallace Co is considering offering an early settlement discount of 1% for payment in 30 days. It is expected that 25% of its customers (representing 35% of the annual credit sales figures) will pay in 30 days in order to obtain the discount.So that means 35% or 0.35 of customers take 30 and the rest take 60 which is 0.65 or 65% (bal fig)
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