ABC Ltd. has revenue of N$500 million and sells all of its goods on credit to a variety of different wholesale customers. At the moment the company offers a standard credit period of 30 days. However, 70% of its customers (by revenue) take an average of 70 days to pay, while the other 30% of customers (by revenue) pay within 30 days. The company is considering offering a 2% discount for payment within 30 days and estimates that 80% of customers (by revenue) will take up this offer (including those that already pay within 30 days).

The Managing Director has asked the credit controller if the cost of this new policy would be worth offering. The company has a £80 million overdraft facility that it regularly uses to the full limit due to the lateness of payment and the cost of this overdraft facility is 15% per annum. The credit controller also estimates that bad debt level of 2% of revenue would be halved to 1% of revenue as a result of this new policy.

Required

1. Calculate the approximate equivalent annual percentage cost of a discount of 2%, which reduces the time taken by credit customers to pay from 70 days to 30 days.

2. Calculate the value of trade receivables under the existing scheme and the proposed scheme at the year-end.

3. Evaluate the benefits and costs of the scheme and explain with reasons whether the company should go ahead and offer the discount. You should also consider other factors in this decision. (Hint: You need to work out the cost of the discount compared to the interest on the overdraft saved and bad debt reduction.)

Cincinnati Paint Company sells quality brands of paints through hardware stores throughout the United States. The company maintains a large sales force who call on existing customers and look for new business. The national sales manager is investigating the relationship between the number of sales calls made and the miles driven by the sales representative. Also, do the sales representatives who drive the most miles and make the most calls necessarily earn the most in sales commissions? To investigate, the vice president of sales selected a sample of 25 sales representatives and determined:

• The amount earned in commissions last month (y)
• The number of miles driven last month (x₁)
• The number of sales calls made last month (x₂)

The information is reported below.

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Develop a regression equation including an interaction term. (Negative amount should be indicated by a minus sign. Round your answers to 3 decimal places.)

Complete the following table. (Negative amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. Round your answers to 3 decimal places.)

Compute the value of the test statistic corresponding to the interaction term. (Negative amount should be indicated by a minus sign. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

At the 0.05 significance level is there a significant interaction between the number of sales calls and the miles driven?

This is (not statistically significant, statistically significant) so we conclude that there (is no interaction, is interaction)

Abel Corporation uses customers served as its measure of activity. During February, the company budgeted for 36,400 customers, but actually served 27,600 customers. The company uses the following revenue and cost formulas in its budgeting, where q is the number of customers served:

Revenue: $4.90q

Wages and salaries: $34,600 + $1.52q

Supplies: $0.92q

Insurance: $11,800

Miscellaneous expenses: $7,800 + $0.44q

The company reported the following actual results for February:

Required:

Prepare the company's flexible budget performance report for February. Label each variance as favorable (F) or unfavorable (U). (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Input all amounts as positive values.)

In 2003/2004, three administrations ago, Vision 20-20 – a strategy for development and
progress, aimed at bringing Nigeria among the top 20 industrialized nations in the world
by 2020 A.D. was drafted. A positive challenge to entrepreneurial and functional education
in Nigeria. The vision sets out a 7-point Agenda that will drive the process of achieving
national objectives. It consists of Goals, Macroeconomic framework, Financial and plan
implementation strategies, to fast track the policies. With the aid of a well-labeled chart,
show the “NEEDS” at a glance.

A population has a mean of 74 with a standard deviation of 9.8.

a.) what is the probability that one element of the population selected at random is between 70 and 91?

b.) what is the probability that a random sample of 36 from this population has a sample mean between 73 and 79?

A population has a mean of 74 with a standard deviation of 9.8.

a) What is the probability that one element of the population selected at random is between 70 and 91?

b) What is the probability that a random sample of 36 from this population has a sample mean between 73 and 79?

In 2004, Google launched its IPO via Dutch Auction. Different from traditional IPO processes(Firm commitment and Best efforts), Dutch Auction allows every investor, including small investors, to submit her bids online for IPO shares. It does not involve the “road show” or book building from investment banks.

Google’s IPO price was $85, and it opened at $100 at the first day of trading, reflecting a 17.6 percent underpricing. 83 percent of the IPOs issued between January and November 2004 experienced less underpricing than Google did. In your opinion, if Google had adopted a traditional IPO process, would Google have been able to set up a higher IPO price? Please explain.

In 2004, Google launched its IPO via Dutch Auction. Different from traditional IPO process we described in handout 2, Dutch Auction allows every investor, including small investors, to submit her bids online for IPO shares. It does not involve the “road show” or book building from investment banks.

Google’s IPO price was $85, and it opened at $100 at the first day of trading, reflecting a 17.6 percent underpricing. 83 percent of the IPOs issued between January and November 2004 experienced less underpricing than Google did. In your opinion, if Google had adopted a traditional IPO process, would Google have been able to set up a higher IPO price? Please explain.

1.In your own words, what is the difference between a salvage cost and a salvage value? How do each contribute to the overall PW of a project?

2.In your own words, describe the difference between simple payback and discounted payback.