Question

When an Accounts Payable department improves their information system resulting in faster payments to vendors, without the Accounts Receivable Department doing the same, leading to a cash flow crunch, what can we say happened in decision-theoretic terms

Answer 1

Answer: C) suboptimization

Step-by-step explanation:

The Accounts Payable department's system has been optimized yet the Accounts receivable's system has not been optimized. This means that the company as a whole is suboptimized because only one department was optimized and the other was not.

It can lead to problems such as a credit crunch because the company is paying cash faster than it is receiving it. If both departments were optimized, this wouldn't be the case as the payments and receipts would tally.