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- July 6, 2020 at 6:03 pm #576148
Dear John,
Regarding the question 32 Oscar Co in the CBE Sep/ Dec exam, please help to clarify the below questions:
– With recourse basis, the bad debt is still the same so no more benefit and no more cost to Oscar Co, then no need to include 2% bad debt in the calculation
– With non recourse basis, the factoring cannot claim the bad debt so it is a benefit to Oscar. But I cannot understand what is the increase in finance cost and why the answer is = 2,301,370*0.8*0.2?Looking forward to your reply.
Thanks a lot.July 7, 2020 at 9:25 am #576215Please tell me which years Sep/Dec exam you are referring to.
July 7, 2020 at 2:39 pm #576245Oh Sorry for this info lacking. Please see below the question:
Oscar Co designs and produces tracking devices. The company is managed by its four founders, who lack business administration skills.
The company has revenue of $28m, and all sales are on 30 days’ credit. Its major customers are large multinational car manufacturing companies and are often late in paying their invoices. Oscar Co is a rapidly growing company and revenue has doubled in the last four years. Oscar Co has focused in this time on product development and customer service, and managing trade receivables has been neglected.
Oscar Co’s average trade receivables are currently $5.37m, and bad debts are 2% of credit sales revenue. Partly as a result of poor credit control, the company has suffered a shortage of cash and has recently reached its overdraft limit. The four founders have spent large amounts of time chasing customers for payment. In an attempt to improve trade receivables management, Oscar Co has approached a factoring company.
The factoring company has offered two possible options:
Option 1
Administration by the factor of Oscar Co’s invoicing, sales accounting and receivables collection, on a full recourse basis. The factor would charge a service fee of 0.5% of credit sales revenue per year. Oscar Co estimates that this would result in savings of $30,000 per year in administration costs. Under this arrangement the average trade receivables collection period would be 30 days.
Option 2
Administration by the factor of Oscar Co’s invoicing, sales accounting and receivables collection on a non-recourse basis. The factor would charge a service fee of 1.5% of credit sales revenue per year. Administration cost savings and average trade receivables collection period would be as Option 1. Oscar Co would be required to accept an advance of 80% of credit sales when invoices are raised at an interest rate of 9% per year.
Oscar Co pays interest on its overdraft at a rate of 7% per year and the company operates for 365 days per year.
Question a:
Calculate the costs and benefits of each of Option 1 and Option 2 and comment on your findingsJuly 7, 2020 at 5:08 pm #576266You did not need to type out the whole question – you just needed to tell me which years exam you were referring to!!!
I think you have mistyped the answer – it should be multiplied by 0.02 and not by 0.2.
The average receivables will be 30/365 x $28M = $2,301,370. On 80% (so 0.8) of these they will be paying 2% (so 0.2) more interest to the factor than they would be paying on their overdraft.
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July 7, 2020 at 5:27 pm #576267Thank you so much for explaination. Now I get it.
And sorry for quoting full question since I don’t want to waste your time to find the question.
I already watched your free lectures when I learned F9 at first time. Then some private business made me not having enough time to study well this course and I failed it. Now I come back with this but time make me forget a lot and I’m trying to study for the exam next few days.
July 7, 2020 at 5:28 pm #576270No problem, and you are very welcome 🙂
August 12, 2023 at 1:14 pm #689790Dear John,
What is the role of the 9% interest per year in option 2 in this question?
Thanks in advance
August 13, 2023 at 8:20 am #689831they have to pay 9% interest on the amount of the advances.
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