The Mesa Bank is offering your company the use of their lockbox services. They estimate that you can reduce your average mail time by 2 days and they can save you a combined clearing and processing time of 1.5 days by putting the checks into the clearing system sooner. The firm receives 320 checks a day on average written for $2,500. The current T-Bill rate is 4% or .0107% per day.
What is the savings float and what can you earn if the firm takes Mesa's lockbox service?

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The Answer of The Mesa Bank is offering your company the use of their lockbox services. They estimate that you can reduce your average mail time by 2 days and they can save you a combined clearing and processing time of 1.5 days by putting the checks into the clearing system sooner. The firm receives 320 checks a day on average written for $2,500. The current T-Bill rate is 4% or .0107% per day.
What is the savings float and what can you earn if the firm takes Mesa's lockbox service?

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