In: Finance
ABC Company has the following projected sales:
Month | Sales |
Jan | $5,000 |
Feb | $14,000 |
Mar | $27,000 |
Apr | $56,000 |
14% of the sales are collected in the same month. 26% of the sales
are collected after one month, 42% of the sales are collected after
two months, and the remainder are collected after three month. What
is the amount of the April collections?
Enter your answer rounded off to two decimal points. Do not enter $ or comma in the answer box. For example, if your answer is $12,345.678 then enter as "12345.68" in the answer box.
In order to solve this question, we need to calculate the collections for each month starting from January to April, as we want the total collection for April. This could be easily calculated using Excel.
The calculation is as follows:
The formulas used are as follows: