Exam 21: Budgeting

Yadkin Valley's April sales forecast projects that 6,000 units will sell at a price of $10.50 per unit. The desired ending inventory is 30% higher than the beginning inventory, which was 1,000 units. Budgeted purchases of units in April would be:

Describe at least five benefits of budgeting.

The master budget is an integrated set of budgets that tie together a company's operating, financing and investing activities into an integrated plan for the coming year.

Employees view budgeting more positively when goals are established for them by senior management.

Which of the following budgets is not directly associated with the production budget?

Which of the following budgets allow for adjustments in activity levels?

The capital expenditures budget summarizes future plans for acquisition of fixed assets.

At the beginning of the period, the Cutting Department budgeted direct labor of $155,000, direct material of $165,000 and fixed factory overhead of $15,000 for 9,000 hours of production. The department actually completed 10,000 hours of production. What is the appropriate total budget for the department, assuming it uses flexible budgeting?

Below is budgeted production and sales information for Flushing Company for the month of December: The unit selling price for product XXX is $5 and for product ZZZ is $15. Budgeted production for product XXX during the month is:

Consider the following budget information: materials to be used totals $64,750; direct labor totals $198,400; factory overhead totals $394,800; work in process inventory January 1, 2012, was expected to be $189,100; and work in progress inventory on December 31, 2012, is expected to be $197,600. What is the budgeted cost of goods manufactured?

Finewood Cabinet Manufacturers uses flexible budgets that are based on the following manufacturing data for the month of July: Prepare a flexible budget for Finewood based on production of 10,000, 15,000, and 20,000 units.

The production budget is the starting point for preparation of the direct labor cost budget.

The process of developing budget estimates by requiring all levels of management to estimate sales, production, and other operating data as though operations were being initiated for the first time is referred to as:

Budgetary slack can be avoided if lower and mid-level managers are requested to support all of their spending requirements with specific operational plans.

The Svelte Jeans Company produces two different types of jeans. One is called the "Simple Life" and the other is called the "Fancy Life". The company sales budget estimates that 350,000 of the Simple Life Jeans and 200,000 of the Fancy Life will be sold during 20xx. The Production Budget requires 353,500 units of Simple Life jeans and 196,000 Fancy Life jeans be manufactured. The Simple Life jeans require 3 yards of denim material, a zipper, and 25 yards of thread. The Fancy Life jeans require 4.5 yards of denim material, a zipper, and 40 yards of thread. Each yard of denim material costs $3.25, the zipper costs $.75 each, and the thread is $.01 per yard. There is enough material to make 2,000 jeans of each type at the beginning of the year. The desired amount of materials left in ending inventory is to have enough to manufacture 3,500 jeans of each type. Prepare a Direct Materials Purchases Budget.

Budgets are normally used only by profit-making businesses.

Next year's sales forecast shows that 20,000 units of Product A and 22,000 units of Product B are going to be sold for prices of $10 and $12 per unit, respectively. The desired ending inventory of Product A is 20% higher than its beginning inventory of 2,000 units. The beginning inventory of Product B is 2,500 units. The desired ending inventory of B is 3,000 units. Total budgeted sales of both products for the year would be:

As of January 1 of the current year, the Grackle Company had accounts receivables of $50,000. The sales for January, February, and March of 2012 were as follows: $120,000, $140,000 and $150,000. 20% of each month's sales are for cash. Of the remaining 80% (the credit sales), 60% are collected in the month of sale, with remaining 40% collected in the following month. What is the total cash collected (both from accounts receivable and for cash sales) in the month of January?

Mandy Corporation sells a single product. Budgeted sales for the year are anticipated to be 640,000 units, estimated beginning inventory is 98,000 units, and desired ending inventory is 80,000 units. The quantities of direct materials expected to be used for each unit of finished product are given below. Material A .50 lb. per unit @ $ .60 per pound Material B 1.00 lb. per unit @ $1.70 per pound Material C 1.20 lb. per unit @ $1.00 per pound The dollar amount of direct material C used in production during the year is:

To meet projected annual sales, Greenleaf Manufacturers, Inc. needs to produce 75,000 machines for 2012. The estimated January 1, 2012, inventory is 7,000 units, and the desired December 31, 2012, inventory is 12,000 units. What are projected sales units for 2012?