Terms of 1/10, net 60 mean that a buyer can save 1% of the purchase price by paying 50 days early. In essence, not taking the discount results in the buyer's borrowing 99% of the in price for 50 days at a total interest charge of 1% of the invoice price. Because a year has 7.3 50-day per periods 365 50), the credit terms 1/10, net 60 yield an effective annualized interest charge of approximately 7.371 [(I% 99%) 7.3]. If the prime rate were higher than 7.37%, the buyer would prefer to borrow from the vendor i.e., not pay within the discount period) rather than from a bank. Consequently, an 8% prime rate could cause the vendor's receivables to increase. An entity sells 10,000 skateboards a year at US $66 each. All sales are on credit, with terms of 3/10. net 30, which means three percent discount if percent it is made within 10 days; otherwise full payment is due at the end of 30 days. One half of the customers are expected to take advantage of the discount and pay on day 10. The other half are expected to pay on day 30. Sales are ,, ict id to be uniform throughout the year for both types of customers.

A record is a collection of related data items fields). A field data item) is a group of characters representing one unit of information.

A Markov chain is a series of events in which the probability of an event depends on the immediately preceding event. An example is the game of blackjack in which the probability of certain cards being dealt is dependent upon what cards have already been dealt. In the analysis of bad debts, preceding events, such as collections, credit policy changes, and write offs, affect the probabilities of future losses.

One of the benefits of an EDI-EFT system is that it can provide remote access at any time from any place if telecommunications links are available. However, appropriate controls should prevent unauthorized access. A multinational company has an agreement with a value-added network VAN) that provides the encoding and communications transfer for the company's electrons.. data interchange EDI) and electronic funds transfer EFT) transactions. Before transfer of data to the VAN, the company performs online preprocessing of the transactions. The internal auditor is responsible for assessing preprocessing controls. In addition, the agreement between the company and the VAN states that the internal auditor is allowed toe :amine and report on the controls in place at the VAN on an annual basis. The contract specifies that access to the VAN can occur on a surprise basis during the second or third quarter of the company's fiscal year. This p n I was -hosen so it would not interfere with processing during the VAN's peak transaction periods. This provision was riot reviewed with internal auditing. The annual audit plan approved by the board of directors specifies that a full audit would be done during the current year.