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1. Financial information for the Hewlett Packard Corporation (HPQ) and General Motors Corporation (GM) are found below:
$ in thousands
31-Oct-08 Hewlett Packard 31-Oct-08 General Motors
Sales 118,364,000 148,979,000
Cost of goods sold 89,592,000 150,603,000
Accounts receivable 29,359,000 7,711,000
Inventories 7,879,000 16,405,000
Accounts payable 32,317,000 24,827,000
Current assets 51,728,000 41,324,000
Current liabilities 52,939,000 73,934,000
Compute the cash conversion cycle for both of these companies
2. Network Solutions just introduced a new, fully automated manufacturing plant that
produces 2,000 wireless routers per day with materials costs of $50 per router and no
other costs. The average number of days a router is held in inventory before being sold
is 45 days. In addition, they generally pay their suppliers in 30 days, while collecting
from their customers after 25 days.
a. What is the cash conversion cycle?
b. What would happen to the cash conversion cycle if they could stretch their payments
to suppliers from 30 days to 50 days?
3) Ashley’s Delivery Service is analyzing the credit terms of each of three suppliers, A, B, and C.
(a) Determine the approximate cost of giving up the cash discount.
4. If a firm buys on trade credit terms of 2/10, net 50 and decides to forgo the trade credit discount
and pay on the net day, what is the annualized cost of forgoing the discount (assume a
360 day year) ?
5. You plan to borrow $20,000 from the bank to pay for inventories for a gift
shop you have just opened. The bank offers to lend you the money at 10 percent annual
interest for the 6 months the funds will be needed (assume a 360 day year).
Calculate the annualized rate of interest on the loan.
6. Tiger Corporation purchases 1,200,000 units per year of one
component. The fixed cost per order is $25. The annual carrying cost of the item
is 27% of its $2 cost.
a. Calculate the EOQ
7. Alexis Company uses 800 units of a product per year on a continuous basis. The product has a fixed cost of $50 per order, and its carrying cost is $2 per unit per year. It takes 5 days to receive a shipment after an order is placed, and the firm wishes to hold 10 days’ usage in inventory as a
safety stock.
a. Calculate the EOQ.
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