Example 1: Your manager enters your office with receipts from a restaurant and bar and asks for reimbursement. The manager claims the expenses were incurred while entertaining a client. Later that day, your manager’s wife comes to the office to drop off his lunch and mentions to you the expensive restaurant her husband took her to the night before and tells you exactly what she ordered. While processing the receipt for reimbursement, you could not help but notice the itemized receipt included the exact items the manager’s wife mentioned she had for dinner. What do you do?

Neveready flashlights inc. needs $317,000 to take a cash discount of 3/15, net 70. a banker will loan the money for 55 days at an interest cost of $13,200. a. what is the effective rate on the bank loan? (use a 360-day year. do not round intermediate calculations. input your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) b. how much would it cost (in percentage terms) if the firm did not take the cash discount but paid the bill in 70 days instead of 15 days? (use a 360-day year. do not round intermediate calculations. input your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) c. should the firm borrow the money to take the discount? no yes d. if the banker requires a 20 percent compensating balance, how much must the firm borrow to end up with the $317,000? e-1. what would be the effective interest rate in part d if the interest charge for 55 days were $7,200?