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Your consulting firm was recently hired to improve the performance of Shin-Soenen Inc,which is highly profitable but has been experiencing cash shortages due to its high growth rate.As one part of your analysis,you want to determine the firm's cash conversion cycle.Using the following information and a 365-day year,what is the firm's present cash conversion cycle? ​

A) 128.4 days
B) 121.5 days
C) 87.1 days
D) 114.6 days
E) 88.2 days

F) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

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Which of the following is NOT a situation that might lead a firm to increase its holdings of short-term marketable securities?

A) The firm must make a known future payment,such as paying for a new plant that is under construction.
B) The firm is going from its peak sales season to its slack season,so its receivables and inventories will experience a seasonal decline.
C) The firm is going from its slack season to its peak sales season,so its receivables and inventories will experience seasonal increases.
D) The firm has just sold long-term securities and has not yet invested the proceeds in operating assets.
E) The firm just won a product liability suit one of its customers had brought against it.

F) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

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Question 63

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The four primary elements in a firm's credit policy are (1)credit standards, (2)discounts offered, (3)credit period,and (4)collection policy.

A line of credit can be either a formal or an informal agreement between a borrower and a bank regarding the maximum amount of credit the bank will extend to the borrower during some future period,assuming the borrower maintains its financial strength.

Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

Uncertainty about the exact lives of assets prevents precise maturity matching in an ex post (i.e. ,after the fact)sense even though it is possible to match maturities on an ex ante (expected)basis.

Cass & Company has the following data.What is the firm's cash conversion cycle? ​

The cash budget and the capital budget are handled separately,and although they are both important,they are developed completely independently of one another.

Your firm's cost of goods sold (COGS) average $2,000,000 per month,and it keeps inventory equal to 50% of its monthly COGS on hand at all times.Using a 365-day year,what is its inventory conversion period?

Inventory management is largely self-contained in the sense that very little coordination among the sales,purchasing,and production personnel is required for successful inventory management.

If the yield curve is upward sloping,then short-term debt will be cheaper than long-term debt.Thus,if a firm's CFO expects the yield curve to continue to have an upward slope,this would tend to cause the current ratio to be relatively low,other things held constant.

Which of the following statement completions is CORRECT? If the yield curve is upward sloping,then the marketable securities held in a firm's portfolio,assumed to be held for emergencies,should

The facts that (1)no explicit interest is paid on accruals and (2)the firm can vary the level of these accounts at will makes them an attractive source of funding to meet the firm's working capital needs.

Edison Inc.has annual sales of $41,610,000,or $114,000 a day on a 365-day basis.The firm's cost of goods sold are 75% of sales.On average,the company has $9,000,000 in inventory and $8,000,000 in accounts receivable.The firm is looking for ways to shorten its cash conversion cycle.Its CFO has proposed new policies that would result in a 20% reduction in both average inventories and accounts receivable.She also anticipates that these policies would reduce sales by 10%,while the payables deferral period would remain unchanged at 35 days.What effect would these policies have on the company's cash conversion cycle? Round to the nearest whole day.

Romano Inc.has the following data.What is the firm's cash conversion cycle? ​

Edwards Enterprises follows a moderate current asset investment policy,but it is now considering a change,perhaps to a restricted or maybe to a relaxed policy.The firm's annual sales are $400,000;its fixed assets are $100,000;its target capital structure calls for 50% debt and 50% equity;its EBIT is $39,000;the interest rate on its debt is 10%;and its tax rate is 40%.With a restricted policy,current assets will be 15% of sales,while under a relaxed policy they will be 25% of sales.What is the difference in the projected ROEs between the restricted and relaxed policies?

Which of the following items should a company report directly in its monthly cash budget?

Setting up a lockbox arrangement is one way for a firm to speed up the collection of payments from its customers.

An increase in any current asset must be accompanied by an equal increase in some current liability.

A firm constructing a new manufacturing plant and financing it with short-term loans,which are scheduled to be converted to first mortgage bonds when the plant is completed,would want to separate the construction loan from its current liabilities associated with working capital when calculating net working capital.