Corporate Finance (The Mcgraw-hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)
Corporate Finance (The Mcgraw-hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780077861759
Author: Stephen A. Ross Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics Professor, Randolph W Westerfield Robert R. Dockson Deans Chair in Bus. Admin., Jeffrey Jaffe, Bradford D Jordan Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 28, Problem 1MC
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To determine: The best credit policy amongst the given to be opted by the company and possibility of less default rate and administrative costs of Option 2 than Option 3 and reasons if any such possibility occurs.

Evaluating Credit Policy:

The process of evaluation of credit policy includes evaluating and analyzing the effectiveness of the lending policies in terms of the amount repaid back by the borrowers. Sometimes, it might happen that the lenders are pooling their investments at very productive avenues but the policies so devised for the transactions are not that effective that it binds the borrowers into a time limit and uniform mode of repayment of the amount so availed as the loan. Thus, during the evaluation process the glitches in the credit policies are re-worked in order to mend them to earn revenues.

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