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Alexis Morris, an assistant manager at a local department store, gets paid every 2 weeks by direct deposit into her checking account. This account pays no interest and has no minimum balance requirement. Her monthly income is $4,200. Alexis has a "target" cash balance of around $1,200, and whenever it exceeds that amount she transfers the excess into her savings account, which currently pays 2.0% annual interest. Her account savings balance is $15,000, and Alexis estimates she transfers about $500 per month from her checking account into her savings account. Alexis doesn't waste any time in paying her bills, and her monthly bills average about $2,000. Her monthly cash outlay for food, gas, and other sundry items totals about $850. Reviewing her payment habits indicate that on average she pays her bills 9 days early. At this time, most marketable securities are yielding about 4.75% annual interest.
Show how Alexis can better manage her cash balance:
a. What can Alexis do regarding the handling of her current balances?
b. What do you suggest that she do with her monthly surpluses?
c. What do you suggest Alexis do about the manner in which she pays her bills?
d. Can Alexis grow her earnings by better managing her cash balances?

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Alexis earn $4200 per month in two equal instalments of $2100.

Total monthly requirement of funds of Alexis = $2000 + $ 850 = $ 2850

Let her monthly requirement is equally divided equally between first and second half of the month, then
Requirement per two weeks = $2850 / 2 = $ 1425
Surplus generated per two weeks = $ 2100 - $ 1425 = $ 675

a) Since her bi weakly requirement is $ 675 less than her income, target balance of $1200 is too high. ...

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