Exercise 8-2 (Algo) Production Budget [LO8-3] Down Under Products' sales budget for the next four months is as follows: Unit Sales April May June July 90,000 95,000 130,000 100,000 The company wants its ending inventory levels to equal 20% of the following month's unit sales. The inventory at the end of March was 18,000 units. Required: Prepare a production budget, by month and in total, for the second quarter. Budgeted unit sales Add: Desired units of ending finished goods inventory Total needs Less: Units of beginning finished goods inventory Required production in units Down Under Products, L+aited Production Budget April May June Quarter 90,000 95,000 130,000 315,000 20,000 90,000 95,000 130,000 335,000 90,000 95,000 130,000 335,000
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- Refer to Cornerstone Exercise 8.1, through Requirement 1. FlashKick requires ending inventory of product to equal 20 percent of the next months unit sales. Beginning inventory in January was 3,100 practice soccer balls and 400 match soccer balls. Required: 1. Construct a production budget for each of the two product lines for FlashKick Company for the first three months of the coming year. 2. What if FlashKick wanted a production budget for the two product lines for the month of April? What additional information would you need to prepare this budget? FlashKick Company manufactures and sells soccer balls for teams of children in elementary and high school. FlashKicks best-selling lines are the practice ball line (durable soccer balls for training and practice) and the match ball line (high-performance soccer balls used in games). In the first four months of next year, FlashKick expects to sell the following: Required: 1. Construct a sales budget for FlashKick for the first three months of the coming year. Show total sales for each product line by month and in total for the first quarter. 2. What if FlashKick added a third linetournament quality soccer balls that were expected to take 40 percent of the units sold of the match balls and would have a selling price of 45 each in January and February, and 48 each in March? Prepare a sales budget for Flash- Kick for the first three months of the coming year. Show total sales for each product line by month and in total for the first quarter.Pasadena Candle Inc. projected sales of 800,000 candles for January. The estimated January 1 inventory is 35,000 units, and the desired January 31 inventory is 20,000 units. What is the budgeted production (in units) for January?Cash budget The controller of Mercury Shoes Inc. instructs you to prepare a monthly cash budget for the next three months. You are presented with the following budget information: The company expects to sell about 10% of its merchandise for cash. Of sales on account, 60% are expected to be collected in the month following the sale and the remainder the following month (second month after sale). Depreciation, insurance, and property tax expense represent 12,000 of the estimated monthly manufacturing costs. The annual insurance premium is paid in February, and the annual property taxes are paid in November. Of the remainder of the manufacturing costs, 80% are expected to be paid in the month in which they are incurred and the balance in the following month. Current assets as of June 1 include cash of 42,000, marketable securities of 25,000, and accounts receivable of 198,000 (150,000 from May sales and 48,000 from April sales). Sales on account in April and May were 120,000 and 150,000, respectively. Current liabilities as of June 1 include 13,000 of accounts payable incurred in May for manufacturing costs. All selling and administrative expenses are paid in cash in the period they are incurred. An estimated income tax payment of 24,000 will be made in July. Mercury Shoes regular quarterly dividend of 15,000 is expected to be declared in July and paid in August. Management desires to maintain a minimum cash balance of 40,000. Instructions Prepare a monthly cash budget and supporting schedules for June, July, and August. On the basis of the cash budget prepared in part (1), what recommendation should be made to the controller?
- Cash budget The controller of Bridgeport Housewares Inc. instructs you to prepare a monthly cash budget for the next three months. You are presented with the following budget information: The company expects to sell about 10% of its merchandise for cash. Of sales on account, 70% are expected to be collected in the month following the sale and the remainder the following month (second month following sale). Depreciation, insurance, and property tax expense represent 50,000 of the estimated monthly manufacturing costs. The annual insurance premium is paid in January, and the annual property taxes are paid in December. Of the remainder of the manufacturing costs, 80% are expected to be paid in the month in which they are incurred and the balance in the following month. Current assets as of September 1 include cash of 40,000, marketable securities of 75,000, and accounts receivable of 300,000 (60,000 from July sales and 240,000 from August sales). Sales on account for July and August were 200,000 and 240,000, respectively. Current liabilities as of September 1 include 40,000 of accounts payable incurred in August for manufacturing costs. All selling and administrative expenses are paid in cash in the period they are incurred. An estimated income tax payment of 55,000 will be made in October. Bridgeports regular quarterly dividend of 25,000 is expected to be declared in October and paid in November. Management desires to maintain a minimum cash balance of 50,000. Instructions Prepare a monthly cash budget and supporting schedules for September, October, and November. On the basis of the cash budget prepared in part (1), what recommendation should be made to the controller?The sales department of Macro Manufacturing Co. has forecast sales for its single product to be 20,000 units for June, with three-quarters of the sales expected in the East region and one-fourth in the West region. The budgeted selling price is 25 per unit. The desired ending inventory on June 30 is 2,000 units, and the expected beginning inventory on June 1 is 3,000 units. Prepare the following: a. A sales budget for June. b. A production budget for June.Barnstormer sells airplane accessories for $20 each. It expects sales of 120,000 units in quarter 1 and a 7% increase each subsequent quarter for the next 8 quarters. Prepare a sales budget by quarter for the first year.
- Preparing a Direct Labor Budget Tulum Inc. makes a Mexican chocolate mix. Planned production in units for the first 3 months of the coming year is: Each box of chocolate mix takes 0.4 direct labor hour. The average wage is 17 per hour. Required: Prepare a direct labor budget for the months of January, February, and March, as well as the total for the first quarter.Operating Budget, Comprehensive Analysis Allison Manufacturing produces a subassembly used in the production of jet aircraft engines. The assembly is sold to engine manufacturers and aircraft maintenance facilities. Projected sales in units for the coming 5 months follow: The following data pertain to production policies and manufacturing specifications followed by Allison Manufacturing: a. Finished goods inventory on January 1 is 32,000 units, each costing 166.06. The desired ending inventory for each month is 80% of the next months sales. b. The data on materials used are as follows: Inventory policy dictates that sufficient materials be on hand at the end of the month to produce 50% of the next months production needs. This is exactly the amount of material on hand on December 31 of the prior year. c. The direct labor used per unit of output is 3 hours. The average direct labor cost per hour is 14.25. d. Overhead each month is estimated using a flexible budget formula. (Note: Activity is measured in direct labor hours.) e. Monthly selling and administrative expenses are also estimated using a flexible budgeting formula. (Note: Activity is measured in units sold.) f. The unit selling price of the subassembly is 205. g. All sales and purchases are for cash. The cash balance on January 1 equals 400,000. The firm requires a minimum ending balance of 50,000. If the firm develops a cash shortage by the end of the month, sufficient cash is borrowed to cover the shortage. Any cash borrowed is repaid at the end of the quarter, as is the interest due (cash borrowed at the end of the quarter is repaid at the end of the following quarter). The interest rate is 12% per annum. No money is owed at the beginning of January. Required: 1. Prepare a monthly operating budget for the first quarter with the following schedules. (Note: Assume that there is no change in work-in-process inventories.) a. Sales budget b. Production budget c. Direct materials purchases budget d. Direct labor budget e. Overhead budget f. Selling and administrative expenses budget g. Ending finished goods inventory budget h. Cost of goods sold budget i. Budgeted income statement j. Cash budget 2. CONCEPTUAL CONNECTION Form a group with two or three other students. Locate a manufacturing plant in your community that has headquarters elsewhere. Interview the controller for the plant regarding the master budgeting process. Ask when the process starts each year, what schedules and budgets are prepared at the plant level, how the controller forecasts the amounts, and how those schedules and budgets fit in with the overall corporate budget. Is the budgetary process participative? Also, find out how budgets are used for performance analysis. Write a summary of the interview.Analyze Johnson Stores staffing budget for holidays Johnson Stores is planning its staffing for the upcoming holiday season. From past history, the store determines that it needs one additional sales clerk for each 12,000 in daily sales. The average daily sales is anticipated to increase by 96,000 from Black Friday until Christmas Eve, or 27 shopping days. Each additional sales clerk will work an eight-hour shift and will be paid 14 per hour. A. Determine the amount to budget for additional sales clerks for the holiday season. B. If Johnson Stores has an average 40% gross profit on sales, should it add the staff suggested by your answer in (A)? That is, is it profitable to staff for the increased sales in (A)?
- Palmgren Company produces consumer products. The sales budget for four months of the year is presented below. Company policy requires that ending inventories for each month be 25 percent of next months sales. At the beginning of July, the beginning inventory of consumer products met that policy. Required: Prepare a production budget for the third quarter of the year. Show the number of units that should be produced each month as well as for the quarter in total.CASH BUDGETING Helen Bowers, owner of Helens Fashion Designs, is planning to request a line of credit from her bank. She has estimated the following sales forecasts for the firm for parts of 2014 and 2015: May 2014 180,000 June 180,000 July 360,000 August 540,000 September 720,000 October 360.000 November 360,000 December 90,000 January 2015 180.000 Estimates regarding payments obtained from the credit department are as follows: collected within the month of sale, 10%; collected the month following the sale, 75%; collected the second month following the sale, 15%. Payments for labor and raw materials are made the month after these services were provided. Here are the estimated costs of labor plus raw materials: May 2014 90,000 June 90,000 July 126,000 August 882.000 September 306,000 October 234,000 November 162,000 December 90,000 General and administrative salaries are approximately 27,000 a month. Lease payments under long-term leases are 9,000 a month. Depreciation charges are 36,000 a month. Miscellaneous expenses arc S2,700 a month. Income tax payments of 63,000 arc due in September and December. A progress payment of 180,000 on a new design studio must be paid in October. Cash on hand on July 1 will be 132,000, and a minimum cash balance of 90,000 should be maintained throughout the cash budget period. a. Prepare a monthly cash budget for the last 6 months of 2014. b. Prepare monthly estimates of the required financing or excess funds that is, the amount of money Bowers will need to borrow or will have available to invest. c. Now suppose receipts from sales come in uniformly during the month (that is, cash receipts come in at the rate of 130 each day), but all outflows must be paid on the 5th. Will this affect the cash budget? That is, will the cash budget you prepared be valid under these assumptions? If not, what could be done to make a valid estimate of the peak financing requirements? No calculations are required, although if you prefer, you can use calculations to illustrate the effects. d. Bowers sales are seasonal; and her company produces on a seasonal basis, just ahead of sales. Without making any calculations, discuss how the companys current and debt ratios would vary during the year if all financial requirements were met with short-term bank loans. Could changes in these ratios affect the firms ability to obtain bank credit? Explain.Cash Budget The controller of Feinberg Company is gathering data to prepare the cash budget for July. He plans to develop the budget from the following information: a. Of all sales, 40% are cash sales. b. Of credit sales, 45% are collected within the month of sale. Half of the credit sales collected within the month receive a 2% cash discount (for accounts paid within 10 days). Thirty percent of credit sales are collected in the following month; remaining credit sales are collected the month thereafter. There are virtually no bad debts. c. Sales for the second two quarters of the year follow. (Note: The first 3 months are actual sales, and the last 3 months are estimated sales.) d. The company sells all that it produces each month. The cost of raw materials equals 26% of each sales dollar. The company requires a monthly ending inventory of raw materials equal to the coming months production requirements. Of raw materials purchases, 50% is paid for in the month of purchase. The remaining 50% is paid for in the following month. e. Wages total 105,000 each month and are paid in the month incurred. f. Budgeted monthly operating expenses total 376,000, of which 45,000 is depreciation and 6,000 is expiration of prepaid insurance (the annual premium of 72,000 is paid on January 1). g. Dividends of 130,000, declared on June 30, will be paid on July 15. h. Old equipment will be sold for 25,200 on July 4. i. On July 13, new equipment will be purchased for 173,000. j. The company maintains a minimum cash balance of 20,000. k. The cash balance on July 1 is 27,000. Required: Prepare a cash budget for July. Give a supporting schedule that details the cash collections from sales.