Sales intelligence indicates that an increase in the company's average collection period from 32 days to 42 days will increase annual sales revenue by 12% from $9,855,000. All sales are on credit. The company's cost of capital is 9%, its cost of goods sold is 60% of revenue and fixed costs are $2,463,000. After consideration for incremental financing costs, how much of an increase in net profit would the company would achieve?

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The increase in annual sales revenue by 12% from $9,855,000 results in new revenue of $11,037,600 ($9,855,000 * 1.12). The incremental revenue is $1,182,600 ($11,037,600 - $9,855,000). The cost of goods sold (COGS) is 60% of revenue, so the incremental COGS is $709,560 ($1,182,600 * 0.60). The incremental gross profit is $473,040 ($1,182,600 - $709,560). Fixed costs remain unchanged, so the entire incremental gross profit contributes to the incremental net profit before considering the cost of additional financing. The additional financing cost due to the increased collection period is the incremental revenue multiplied by the cost of capital for the additional days (10 days out of 365) which is $29,547 ($1,182,600 * 9% * (10/365)). The incremental net profit after financing costs is $443,493 ($473,040 - $29,547). However, this option is not available, indicating a calculation error in the financing cost step or misunderstanding of the correct approach to calculate the net profit increase. The correct calculation should focus on the net profit increase after all adjustments, including the correct handling of the cost of capital and its application to the incremental revenue or profit, not just the financing cost. Given the options and the mistake in the calculation presented, the correct answer would involve accurately calculating the net profit increase considering both the increase in revenue and the associated costs, including the cost of capital. Without the exact correct calculation presented in the options, the closest correct approach was to calculate the incremental profit before financing costs and then subtract the estimated financing costs, but an error in the calculation or interpretation of the options seems to have occurred.

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