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(Calculating the operating and cash conversion cycle)

Carraway Seed Company Inc. has tor many years cultivated and sold what are known as heritage plants and seeds. For example, the company has sought out older varieties of tomato plants that are no longer grown by commercial vegetable farmers since they eithertake too long to mature, do not ship well, or do not hold up for long on the store shell. The company has recently been considering ways to reduce its investment in working capital in order to make itself more pro?table. At present the ?lm has an inventory conversion period of 93 days and the majority of its customers take advantage of its credit tem of 23 days. The company purchases its inventory items on credit terms that allow them 39 days to pay but has always toliowed a policy of making cash payments tor invoices as soon as they are received, so the accounts payable deferral period is typically only 9 days.

a. What are Carraway's operating and cash conversion cycles?

b. It Carraway were to decide to take full advantage of its credit terms and delay payment until the last possible date' how would this impact their cash conversion cycle?

c. What would be your recommendation to the company with regard to its working capital management pradices and why?

a. Carraway's operating cycle is days. [Round to the nearest whoie number.)