Stark Co., Inc., an electronics and appliance chain, reported these ï¬gures in millions of dollars:
Requirements
1. Compute Starkâs daysâ sales in receivables or daysâ sales outstanding (DSO) during 2017.
2. Is Starkâs DSO long or short? Viflex Networks takes 39 days to collect its average level of receivables. Donahue Freight, the overnight shipper, takes 33 days. What causes Starkâs collection period to be so different?
2017 2016 Net sales. $565,750 $607,725 3,820 ....... Receivables at end of year 4,710 ..........
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