Assume ABC Company has asked you to not only prepare their 2018 year-end Balance Sheet but to also provide pro-forma financial statements for 2019. In order to complete the pro-forma financial statements, budgets must first be completed. In addition, they also want you to evaluate 3 projects they are considering. Their information is as follows:

End of the year information:

Account	12/31/X1 Ending Balance
Cash	55,000
Accounts Receivable	195,000
Inventory	128,000
Equipment	485,000
Accumulated Depreciation	92,000
Accounts Payable	157,000
Short-term Notes Payable	15,000
Long-term Notes Payable	190,000
Common Stock	235,000
Retained Earnings	Solve

Additional Information:

• Sales for December total 10,000 units. Each months sales are expected to exceed the prior months results by 6%. The products selling price is $26 per unit.

• Company policy calls for a given months ending inventory to equal 78% of the nextmonths expected unit sales. The December 31 2018 inventory is 8,000 units, which complies with the policy. The purchase price is $16 per unit.

• Sales representatives commissions are 12% of sales and are paid in the month of thesales. The sales managers monthly salary will be $3,600 in January and $3,900 per month thereafter.

• Monthly general and administrative expenses include $8,000 administrative salaries, $5,000 depreciation, and 0.9% monthly interest on the long-term note payable.

• The company expects 30% of sales to be for cash and the remaining 70% on credit. Receivables are collected in full in the month following the sale (none is collected in the month of sale).

• All merchandise purchases are on credit, and no payables arise from any othertransactions. One months purchases are fully paid in the next month.

• The minimum ending cash balance for all months is $50,000. If necessary, the company borrows enough cash using a short-term note to reach the minimum. Short-term notes require an interest payment of 1% at each month-end (before any repayment). If the ending cash balance exceeds the minimum, the excess will be applied to repaying the short-term notes payable balance.

• Dividends of $95,000 are to be declared and paid in February.

• No cash payments for income taxes are to be made during the first calendar quarter.

  Income taxes will be assessed at 21% in the quarter.

• Equipment purchases of $65,000 are scheduled for March.

  ABC Companys management is also considering 3 new projects consisting of the purchaseof new equipment. The company has limited resources, and may not be able to complete/make all 3 purchases. Therefore, calculate the NPV for each, and place the projects in the order in which they should be completed using NPV as the reasoning. The information is as follows for the purchases below.

	Project 1	Project 2	Project 3
Purchase Price	$85,000	$170,000	$22,5 00
Required Rate of Return	6%	8%	12%
Time Period	3 years	5 years	2 years
Cash Flows Year 1	$48,000	$85,000	$13,000
Cash Flows Year 2	$36,000	$74,000	$13,000
Cash Flows Year 3	$22,000	$38,000	N/A
Cash Flows Year 4	N/A	$26,800	N/A
Cash Flows Year 5	N/A	$19,000	N/A

Required Action: Part A:

• Prepare the year-end balance sheet for 20. Be sure to use proper headings.

• Prepare budgets such that the pro-forma financial statements for the first quarter of 2019 may be prepared.

• Sales budget, including budgeted sales for April.

• Purchases budget, the budgeted cost of goods sold for each month and quarter, and the cost of the March 31 budgeted inventory.

• Selling expense budget.

• General and administrative expense budget.

• Expected cash receipts from customers and the expected March 31 balance of accounts receivable.

• Expected cash payments for purchases and the expected March 31 balance of accounts payable.

• Cash budget.

• Budgeted income statement.

• Budgeted statement of retained earnings.

• Budgeted balance sheet.

  Part B:

• Calculate using Excel formulas, the NPV of each of the 3 projects.

• It is possible that ABC Company may not be able to complete all 3 projects. Therefore, advise ABC Company as to the order in which they should pursue the projects (i.e., which project should ABC Company attempt to do first, second, and last).

• Provide justification and analysis as to why you chose the order you did. The analysis must also be done in Excel, not in a separate document. If there is a project that should not be done, then please indicate that as well.