Question

Grayille Financial Consultants, Inc. is planning to reduce the number of days it allows its clients to pay their bills from 45 days to 30 days. Grayille believes that this policy change will have no effect on either sales or costs. Any asset changes resulting from this new policy will be offset by a corresponding and equal change in equity. All else constant, this new collection policy should be expected to (circle all that apply - if the correct answer is a and b and you circle any letter(s) other than a and b, you will receive no credit - that is, no partial credit will be awarded for your answer to this question):

Answer 1

Answer: c. Lower the firm's quick ratio.

d. Lower the firm's current ratio.

Step-by-step explanation:

Reducing the amount of time that clients have to pay will reduce the amount of Account Receivables as clients will no longer have long outstanding due dates. This reduction in Accounts Receivables will be felt by the Quick and Current ratios.

Quick Ratio formula

=
`(Current Assets - Inventory)/(Current Liabilities)`

Current Ratio Formula

=
`(Current Assets)/(Current Liabilties)`

As is evident from the formulas, Current Assets are integral to both ratios and as Accounts Receivables is a current asset that will be reduced, the current assets will be reduced and by extension both the Current and Quick Ratios will be reduced as well.