Question

Cromley Corporation reports annual sales of $1,800,000. Its accounts receivable throughout the year averaged $150,000. a. Compute the company’s accounts receivable turnover rate. b. Compute the average days outstanding of the company’s accounts receivable.

Answer 1

Answer:

a. accounts receivable turnover rate is 12 times

b. Average days sales outstanding is 30 days

Explanation:

Computation of accounts receivable turnover rate

The accounts receivable turnover rate is determined by dividing the credit sales with the average receivables.

Credit Sales                     = $ 1,800,000

Average Receivables      = $    150,000

Receivables Turnover rate = $ 1,800,000/ $ 150,000 = 12 times

Computation of Average Days outstanding

Average days outstanding is computed by dividing the annual credit sales by 365 and using that as a divisor with the average receivables

Annual Credit Sales                     = $ 1,800,000

No of days                                                 365

Average daily credit sales  = $ 1,800.000/365 = $ 4,931.50

No of days sales = Average receivables/ Average daily credit sales

= $ 150,000/ $ 4,931.5 = 30.4 days rounded to 30 days