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Percentage cost of offering/accepting a discount

CCarl2y ago
Hi sir, I had a doubt regarding the formula to be used to calculate this. For the simple annual percentage cost in the context of accepting a discount from a supplier, its simply (discount received/amount paid if discount is taken)* (number of days in the year/difference between normal payment days and payment days if discount is taken) right? However for the effective annual rate of the discount, BPP and Kaplan have given different formulas: BPP: (1+r)^(number of days in the year/difference between normal payment days and payment days if discount is taken) Kaplan: (1+(discount/amount paid if discount is taken))^ (number of days in the year/difference between normal payment days and payment days if discount is taken) - 1 Both formulas give different answers, please clarify which one should be used In which context. Thank you!
IAW3005IAW3005Tutor2y ago#1
An example: Currently on average customers take 40 days to pay. The company is considering offering a discount of 1% for payment within 15 days What is the Effective Annual Cost of offering the discount? You should do it as: They get a discount if they pay 15 days earlier than normal. (40 - 15 = 25) Therefor over a year it will be ( (1 + 1/99) ^ (365/25) ) – 1 = 15.8%
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