1. Dallas and More (D&M) sells its inventory in 82 days on average. Its average customer charges his purchase on a credit card whereby payment is received in ten days. On the other hand, D&M takes 56 days on average to pay for its purchases. Given this information, what is the length of D&M's operating cycle?

2. Your firm currently has an operating cycle of 64 days. You are analyzing some operational changes which are expected to decrease the accounts receivable period by 3 days and decrease the inventory period by 2 days. The accounts payable turnover rate is expected to increase from 7 to 9 times per year. If all of these changes are adopted, what will be your firm's new operating cycle?

3. Your firm currently has an operating cycle of 64 days. You are analyzing some operational changes which are expected to decrease the accounts receivable period by 3 days and decrease the inventory period by 2 days. The accounts payable turnover rate is expected to increase from 7 to 9 times per year. If all of these changes are adopted, what will be your firm's new payables period?

4. Your firm currently has an operating cycle of 64 days. You are analyzing some operational changes which are expected to decrease the accounts receivable period by 3 days and decrease the inventory period by 2 days. The accounts payable turnover rate is expected to increase from 7 to 9 times per year. If all of these changes are adopted, what will be your firm's new cash cycle?

5. True Blue Stores had a beginning accounts payable balance of $56,900 and an ending accounts payable balance of $62,800. Sales for the period were $670,000 and costs of goods sold were $418,000. What is the payables turnover rate?

6. Your firm has sales of $628,000 and cost of goods sold of $402,000. At the beginning of the year, your inventory was $31,000. At the end of the year, the inventory balance was $33,000. What is the inventory turnover rate?

7. Sources of cash do not include:

8. The cash cycle is defined as the time between:

9. Jaxson and Sons has an inventory period of 33 days, an accounts payable period of 41 days and an accounts receivable period of 27 days. Management is considering offering a 5% discount if its credit customers pay for their purchases within 10 days. If the new discount is offered the accounts receivable period is expected to decline by 13 days. If the new discount is offered, the operating cycle will decrease from _____ days to _____ days.

10. Your firm currently has an operating cycle of 64 days. You are analyzing some operational changes which are expected to decrease the accounts receivable period by 3 days and decrease the inventory period by 2 days. The accounts payable turnover rate is expected to increase from 7 to 9 times per year. Before these changes take place, what is the company's cash cash cycle? (choose the closest answer.)