Cash conversion cycle
Primrose Corp has $18 million of sales, $3 million of inventories, $4 million of receivables, and $2 million of payables. Its cost of goods sold is 85% of sales, and it finances working capital with bank loans at an 7% rate. Assume 365 days in year for your calculations. Round intermediate steps to 2 decimal places.
What is Primrose's cash conversion cycle (CCC)? Round your answer to two decimal places.
days
If Primrose could lower its inventories and receivables by 11% each and increase its payables by 11%, all without affecting sales or cost of goods sold, what would be the new CCC? Round your answer to two decimal places.
days
How much cash would be freed-up? Round your answer to the nearest cent.
$
By how much would pre-tax profits change? Round your answer to the nearest cent.
$