Exercise 22-19 (10 minutes)
($ millions)
Days’ sales in accounts receivable = $17,874 x 365 = 28 days
$229,234
Days’ sales in inventory = $4,855 x 365 = 13 days
$141,048
Days’ payable outstanding = $49,049 x 365 = 127 days
$141,048
Exercise 22–20B (15 minutes)
2. If the Trailer division is currently producing 20,000 trailers and the
Assembly division will order 15,000 more trailers, the Trailer division will
have excess capacity. In this case the range of acceptable transfer
prices will be from the $80 variable manufacturing cost through the $200
market price per trailer. The Trailer division manager will not accept
less than $80 per trailer and the Assembly division manager will not pay
more than $200 per trailer.