Exam 9: The Master Budget

Goliath Company prepared the following purchases budget: All purchases are paid for as follows: 30% in the month of purchase, 45% in the following month, and 25% two months after purchase. What are the total cash disbursements in October for the purchase of merchandise?

Expected purchases for June and July are $80,000 and $92,000, respectively. Purchases for May were $60,000. All purchases are paid 45% in the month of purchase and 55% the following month. At what amount are June payments for purchases budgeted?

When creating the sales budget, management simply takes the sales from the year before and divides that total by 12 months. Thus, each month will always predict the same amount of budgeted sales.

Fosnight Enterprises prepared the following sales budget: The expected gross profit rate is 30% and the inventory at the end of February was $10,000. Desired inventory levels at the end of the month are 20% of the next month's cost of goods sold. What are the total purchases budgeted for May?

CatNap Company has two products: Kittyz and Katz. A March sales forecast projects 20,000 units of Kittyz and 15,000 units of Katz are going to be sold at prices of $15 and $12, respectively. The desired ending inventory of Kittyz is 20% higher than the beginning inventory, which was 2,000 units. How much are total March sales for Kittyz anticipated to be?

Bruner Stores wants to have 500 shovels in ending inventory on December 31. Budgeted sales for December are 1,950 shovels. The November 30 inventory was 320 shovels. How many shovels should Benson Stores purchase for December?

Hammond's Cookie Toppings makes payments on its inventory purchases as follows: 25% in the month of purchase, 65% in the following month, and 10% in the second month following purchase. Budgeted inventory purchases for June, July, and August are $15,000, $19,000 and $24,000, respectively. At what amount are cash payments for inventory in August budgeted?

A merchandising company will have a production budget.

Which of the following is the starting place for budgeting?

Totz Company produces jump ropes. Totz Company has the following sales projections for the upcoming year: Inventory at the beginning of the year was 4,200 jump ropes. Totz Company wants to have 20% of the next quarter's sales in units on hand at the end of each quarter. How many jump ropes should Totz Company produce during the first quarter?

The ________ budget is part of the financial budgets.

All of the following are considered when preparing the cash budget except

The sales budget is the cornerstone of the master budget.

Service companies do not prepare a cash budget.

BusyBody Company expects its November sales to be 20% higher than its October sales of $180,000. Purchases were $110,000 in October and are expected to be $160,000 in November. All sales are on credit and are collected as follows: 35% in the month of the sale and 60% in the following month. Purchases are paid 40% in the month of purchase and 60% in the following month. The cash balance on November 1 is $13,500. The cash balance on November 30 will be