Drug’s R Us operates a mail-order pharmaceutical business on the West Coast. The firm receives an average of $325,000 in payments per day.

Drug’s R Us operates a mail-order pharmaceutical business on the West Coast.  The firm receives an average of $325,000 in payments per day.  On average, it takes four days for the firm to receive payments per day.  On average, it takes four days for the firm to receive payment from the time customers mail their checks to the time the firm receives and processes them.  A lockbox system that consists of 10 local depository banks and a concentration bank in San Francisco would cost $6,500 per month.  Under this system, customers’ checks would be received at the lockbox location one day after they are mailed, and the daily total would be wired to the concentration bank at a cost of $9.75 each.  Assume that the firm could earn 10 percent on marketable securities and that there are 260 working days and hence 260 transfers from each lockbox location per year.

            a. What is the total annual cost of operating the lockbox system?

            b. What is the dollar benefit of the system to Drugs’R Us?

            c. Should the firm initiate the lock box system?

a Calculation of Total Annual Cost of operating the lockbox system:Monthly Cost = $6,500Annual Cost = 6,500 x 12 = $78,000Daily Cost of wiring = $9.75For Year = 9.75 x 260 = $2,535Total for 10…

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