Managerial Accounting
Preparing a master budget for a retail company with no beginning
account balances
Patel Company is a retail company that specializes in selling outdoor camping equipment. The
company is consndering opening a new store on October 1. 2012. The company president formed
a planning committee to prepare a master budget for the first three months of operation. He as-
signed you. the budget coordinator. the following tasks.
Required
3. October sales are estimated to be 5120.000 of which 40 percent will be cash and 60 percent
will be credit. The company expects sales to increase at the rate of 25 percent per month.
Prepare a sales budget.
b. The company expects to collect 100 percent of the accounts receivable generated by credit
sales in the month following the sale. Prepare a schedule of cash receipts.
e. The cost of goods sold is 60 percent of sales. The company desires to maintain a minimum
ending inventory equal to 10 percent of the next month's cost of goods sold. However. end-
ing inventory at December 31 is expected to be $12,000. Assume that all purchases are made
on account. Prepare an inventory purchases budget.
(1. The company pays 71) percent of accounts payable in the month of purchase and the remain-
ing 30 percent in the following month. Prepare a cash payments budget for inventory
purchases.
e. Budgeted selling and administrative expenses per month follow.
Salary expense (fixed) $18,000
Sales commissions 5 percent of Sales i
Supplies expense 2 percent of Sales
Utilities (fixed) $1,400
Depreciation on store fixtures (fixed)* $4,000 1
Rent (fixed) $4,800
Miscellaneous (fixed) $1,200
The capital expenditures budget indicates that Patel will spend $164,000
on October 1 for store fixtures, which are expected to have a $20,000 salvage
value and a three-year (36-month) useful life.
Use this information to prepare a selling and administrative expenses budget.
f. Utilities and sales commissions are paid the month after they are incurred; all other expenses
are paid in the month in which they are incurred. Prepare a cash payments budget for selling
and administrative expenses.
g. Patel borrows funds. in increments of 51.000. and repays them on the last day of the month.
The company also pays its vendors on the last day of the month. It pays interest of 1 percent
per month in cash on the last day of the month. To be prudent. the company desires to
maintain at $12.000 cash cushion. Prepare a cash budget.
11. Prepare a pro forma income statement for the quarter.
i. Prepare a pro forma balance sheet at the end of the quarter.