Each business day, on average, a company writes checks totaling $41,500 to pay its suppliers. The usual clearing time for the checks is six days. Meanwhile, the company is receiving payments from its customers each day, in the form of checks, totaling $52,500. The cash from the payments is available to the firm after four days. Required:
a. Calculate the company's disbursement float, collection float, and net float (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to the nearest whole number, e. g., 32.)

b. Calculate the company's disbursement float, collection float, and net float if the collected funds were available in two days instead of four (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to the nearest whole number, e. g.. 32.).

Amanufacturing firm is considering overhauling the existing compensation strategy. currently every front line employee who works on the assembly line earns the same hourly wage. ideally, management would like to institute a new pay system that involves pay-for-performance. which of the following recommendations is both consistent with scientific management's general emphases and generally good advice for management of this firma. the firm should adopt a differential pay system with one pay level for average performance, and a higher level for good performance. b. the firm should adopt a differential pay system, but the firm should modify it from its original design and provide many different levels of pay associated with different performance levels. c. the firm should understand worker psychology and to focus on pay as the key motivator. d. all of the abovee. none of the above