To Reduce the Time and Expense of Collecting Their Accounts

question 173

Multiple Choice

To reduce the time and expense of collecting their accounts receivable, some firms

• A) extend credit to new customers.
• B) offer extended payment plans to existing customers.
• C) adopt a just-in-time inventory policy.
• D) accept bank credit cards.

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Definitions:

Gross Profits

The difference between revenue and the cost of goods sold before deducting overheads, payroll, taxation, and interest payments.

Probability

A measure of the likelihood that a particular event will occur, expressed as a number between 0 and 1, where 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty.

Rollback Technique

A decision analysis procedure used to solve decision trees backwards from the end nodes to the beginning, to find the sequence of decisions that maximizes the expected utility.

Expected Opportunity Loss

The anticipated value of the best foregone opportunity when a particular decision is made.