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Industry Characteristics and Collection PerformanceThe following information was taken fro...

Industry Characteristics and Collection Performance

The following information was taken from recent annual reports of Goodyear Tire&Rubber, and PPL EnergyCo., a public utility:

 

Goodyear

PPL

Netsales

$19.6 billion

$ 5.1 billion

Average accounts receivable

3.1 billion

$376 million

a.  Compute for each company the accounts receivable turnover rate for the year.


b.  Compute foreach company theaverage number ofdays required tocollect outstanding receivables (round answers to nearest whole day).


c.  Explain why the figures computed for Goodyear in parts a and b are so different from those computed for PPL.

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