Question

No More Books Corporation has an agreement with Floyd Bank, whereby the bank handles $6.8 million in collections a day and requires a $440,000 compensating balance. No More Books is contemplating canceling the agreement and dividing its Eastern region so that two other banks will handle its business. Banks A and B will each handle $3.4 million of collections a day, and each requires a compensating balance of $290,000. No More Books’ financial management expects that collections will be accelerated by one day if the Eastern region is divided. What is the NPV of accepting the system? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, rounded to the nearest whole number, e.g., 1,234,567.) What will be the annual net savings? Assume that the T-bill rate is 2.5 percent annually. (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, rounded to the nearest whole number, e.g., 1,234,567.)

Answer 1

Given Collections in a day = $ 6800000

Compensating balance required by the other two banks = $ 290000 each

Compensating Balance required by the Current bank = $ 440000

Given T Bill rate = 2.5%

Computation of NPV

NPV = Value of Collections in a day -( 2* Compensating balance required by 2 other banks - Compensating balance required by the current bank )

= $ 6800000 - ( 2*$ 290000-$ 440000)

= $ 6800000- ( $ 580000-$ 440000)

= $ 6800000-$ 140000

= $6660000

Hence NPV of accepting the system is $ 66,60000

Computation of Annual net savings

Annual Net savings = NPV * T Bill rate

= $ 6660000*2.5%

= $ 166500

Hence Annual net savings are $ 166500.