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2. Your company is considering a modification to your credit policy, as follows:

Policy C-1
Increases sales $5 million per year
Average collection period for incremental sales = 45 days

No bad-debt losses are expected.

The company's variable cost of sales is 80%.

Cost of capital is 20%

Should you adopt either the policy? Why?

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Increased sales = 5 million
Increase in receivables = 5 million *45/360= 0.625 ...

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