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  • August 19, 2015 at 4:55 pm #267779
    alighere
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    Hi. I am doing my CAT–FFM paper and don’t seem to understand the following:

    If customers on average take 2.5 months to pay their debts, and if all sales are on credit (sales = 100,000$) how does this translate into (2.5/12)*100,000 as the receivables as at reporting date?

    August 19, 2015 at 6:55 pm #267796
    John Moffat
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    The sales each month are 100,000/12.

    If customers take 2.5 months to pay, then it means that the amount owing at any time (including the reporting date) must be 2.5 time the monthly sales. So 2.5 x 100,000/12.

    August 19, 2015 at 7:31 pm #267801
    alighere
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    But John, for this to work we are placing an unrealistic assumption that the sales per day have to be the same. 100,000/365

    Thats not possible.

    August 20, 2015 at 6:52 am #267828
    John Moffat
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    No. We are assuming that on average the sales are 100,000/12 per month (not that they are exactly that much each month). That is possible, and is all we can assume without more information.

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