The Mesa Bank Is Offering Your Company the Use of Their

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Essay

The Mesa Bank is offering your company the use of their lockbox services. They estimate that you can reduce your average mail time by 2 days and they can save you a combined clearing and processing time of 1.5 days by putting the checks into the clearing system sooner. The firm receives 320 checks a day on average written for $2,500. The current T-Bill rate is 4% or .0107% per day.
If Mesa will charge your firm an annual fee of $35,000 and $.20 per check handled will you accept Mesa's services?

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Definitions:

Operating Agreement

An agreement in which the members of a limited liability company set forth the details of how the business will be managed and operated.

Limited Liability Company

A company organization style that merges the protective limited liability of corporations with the advantageous pass-through taxation of sole proprietorships or partnerships.

State Law

consists of the laws and regulations enacted by the legislative bodies of individual states.

Passed Through

A term often used in finance and taxation to describe income, losses, or tax benefits transferred from one entity to another, such as in a pass-through entity.