Apple Inc. manufacturers I-phones. You have been hired as a cost accountant and your assignment to create a master budget using EXCEL.. You have been working with various departments to gather financial data to assemble a master budget. One reason you have chosen this format is that upper management will probably make some last-minute changes to sales and possible changes to some other cost forecasts. So, to simplify this problem you MUST create separate sheets for each budget and all budgets should link together so changes can be easily made. For example, if you change the sales forecast, then all the remaining numbers in all other budgets would change without having to change numbers manually in each budget.

Some of the information has been input for you but you need to calculate the remaining data points to produce an income statement.

Here are the steps:

You must setup all eight budgets using Excel. Starting with the sales budget, calculate the sales budget forecast for all four quarters and calculate the total column

2. Each budget should be prepared on individual Excel spreadsheets (on separate tabs) with pages that include links from previous budgets to avoid copying and pasting the same numbers from page to page. Formulas must also be included in the appropriate cells within each spreadsheet. (Demonstrate to the CEO that you have a good working knowledge of EXCEL)..

3. Each budget should professionally represent all the budget information; must be easy to understand so it can be presented to the CEO and the owners of the business.

4. Briefly discuss your assumptions and any challenges you encountered while preparing the budget. (Add this information to the research portion of your paper. (NOT on EXCEL)