Exam 7: Master Budgets and Performance Planning

Cahuilla Corporation predicts the following sales in units for the coming four months: Each month's ending Finished Goods Inventory in units should be 40% of the next month's sales March 31 Finished Goods inventory is 96 units. A finished unit requires five pounds of direct material B at a cost of $2.00 per pound. The March 31 Raw Materials Inventory has 200 pounds of direct material B. Each month's ending Raw Materials Inventory should be 30% of the following month's production needs. The budgeted cost of direct material B during May should be:

A budget is a formal statement of future plans, usually expressed in monetary terms.

Southland Company is preparing a cash budget for August. The company has $17,000 cash at the beginning of August and anticipates $120,800 in cash receipts and $134,500 in cash payments during August. Southland Company wants to maintain a minimum cash balance of $10,000. To maintain the minimum cash balance of $10,000, the company must borrow:

The sequence of the budgets within the master budget begins with the capital expenditures budget.

The most useful budget figures are developed:

A company's history indicates that 20% of its sales are for cash and the rest are on credit. Collections on credit sales are 30% in the month of the sale, 50% in the next month, and 15% the following month. Projected sales for January, February, and March are $60,000, $85,000 and $95,000, respectively. The March expected cash receipts from current and prior credit sales is:

A sporting equipment store expects to purchase $8,000 of ski boots in October. The store had $2,000 of ski boots in merchandise inventory at the beginning of October, and expects to have $3,000 of ski boots in merchandise inventory at the end of October to cover part of anticipated November sales. What is the budgeted cost of goods sold for October?

Ratchet Manufacturing's August sales budget calls for sales of 8,000 units. Each month's unit sales are expected to grow by 5%. The product selling price is $25 per unit. The expected total sales dollars for September's sales budget are:

Larger, more complex organizations usually require a longer time to prepare their budgets than smaller organizations because of the considerable effort to coordinate the different units within the business.

The production budget is derived from the sales budget and the company's desired inventory levels.

Activity-based budgeting is a budget system based on expected activities and their levels for the budget period, which helps management plan for the resources required.

Webster Corporation is preparing its cash budget for April. The March 31 cash balance is $36,400. Cash receipts are expected to be $641,000 and cash payments for purchases are expected to be $608,500. Other cash expenses expected are $27,000 selling and $33,500 general and administrative. The company desires a minimum cash balance at the end of each month of $30,000. If necessary, the company borrows enough cash to meet the minimum using a short-term note. Webster's preliminary cash balance before loan activity for April is expected to be:

What is a cash budget? How can management use a cash budget?

To determine the production budget for an accounting period, consideration is given to all of the following except:

Zhang Industries budgets production of 300 units in June and 310 units in July. Each unit requires 1.5 hours of direct labor. The direct labor rate is $14 per hour. The indirect labor rate is $21 per hour. Compute the budgeted direct labor cost for July.

The ________ shows the budgeted costs for factory overhead that will be needed to complete the estimated production for the period, often separated into variable and fixed costs.

The usual budget period for most companies is:

Flagstaff Company has budgeted production units of 7,900 for July and 8,100 for August. The direct materials requirement per unit is 2 ounces (oz.). The company requires to have safety stock of direct materials on hand at the end of each month to complete 20% of the units of budgeted production in the following month. There was 3,160 ounces of direct material in inventory at the start of July. The total ounces of direct materials to be purchased in July is:

If a merchandiser's budgeted beginning inventory is $8,300, budgeted ending inventory is $9,400, and cost of goods sold is expected to be $10,260, then budgeted purchases should be $11,360.

Ratchet Manufacturing anticipates total sales for August, September, and October of $200,000, $210,000, and $220,500 respectively. Cash sales are normally 25% of total sales and the remaining sales are on credit. All credit sales are collected in the first month after the sale. Compute the amount of cash received for September.