The Northeast Regional Division of Platt Wholesale Corporation Has Been

Essay

The Northeast Regional Division of Platt Wholesale Corporation has been requested to prepare a quarterly budgeted income statement for 2011. The regional manager expects that sales in the first quarter of 2011 will increase by 10% over the same quarter of the preceding year and will then increase by 5% for each succeeding quarter in 2011.
The corporate head office has requested that the regional manager maintain an inventory in dollars equal to 25% of the next quarter's sales. Quarterly purchases average 55% of quarterly sales. Budgeted ending inventory on December 31, 2010 is $132,000. Quarterly salaries are $15,000 plus 5% of sales. All salaries are classified as sales salaries. Other quarterly expenses are estimated to be as follows:
The income statement for the first quarter of 2010 was as follows:
Instructions
Prepare a budgeted quarterly income statement in tabular form for the first quarter of 2011. (Show computations.)