Sign Company and Paint Company have a twenty-year business relationship, and they work together when sending and receiving payments. Sign Company also does a large amount of business with Brush Company, a subsidiary of Paint Company. Brush Company’s Treasurer recently received a memo from the Treasurer of Paint Company reminding it that when dealing with vendors, extensive information is required when receiving or making ACH payments. What ACH payment format are Sign Company and Paint Company MOST LIKELY to use?
Answer(s): D
JKL Company has been successful in shortening the time associated with its mail float, processing float and availability float. JKL Company will experience which of the following as a result of these improvements?
Answer(s): A
Recently LEW Utilities, a local utility company, began using the company processing center method to process customer payments. Prior to this change, it used its local depository bank’s lockbox to process the payments. The PRIMARY advantage of the new method is to:
Answer(s): B
JMW Company processes its consumer payments using a lockbox provider. On average 35% of its remittance advices contain encoding errors. JMW Company’s cost for the lockbox provider to process these payments will be least impacted if it uses:
An analyst at XYZ Company was assigned with determining if the company should start to use a lockbox provider for its retail payments. The analyst determined that the company’s annual sales of$324,000,000 were recorded evenly throughout the year. The Company receives 30,000 checks annually. Total dollar-days float without the lockbox is $76,500,000 and the annual opportunity cost is 5.5%; assume 30-day month. The industry’s average opportunity cost is 6.0%. Using the information in the table, what would be the net effect of using the lockbox?
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