Homework Help Forum: Accounting

Posted by Neena on Monday, June 26, 2006 at 12:45am.

Lock boxes Anne teak, The finanicial manager of the furniture manufactures, is considering operating a lock box system. she forcasts that 400 payments a day will be made to lock boxes with an average payment size of $2000. The bank charge for operating the lock boxes is $.40 a check. The interest rate is 0.15 percent per day. A) If the lock box saves 2 days in collection float, is it worthwhile to adopt the system? b) What minimum reduction in the time to collect and process each check is needed to justify use of the lock box system? I am sorry your questions have gone unanswered so long. We seem to lack accounting experts to help you at present. Thank you for posting your questions here and good luck finding tutoring help in that subject.

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