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Cash budget

The controller of Bridgeport Housewares Inc. instructs you to monthly cash budget for the next three months. You are presented with the following budget information:

Line Item Description	September	October	November
Sales	$111,000	$142,000	$184,000
Manufacturing costs	47,000	61,000	66,000
Selling and administrative expenses	39,000	43,000	70,000
Capital expenditures			44,000

The company expects to sell about 10% of its merchandise for cash. Of sales on account, 70% are expected to be collected in the month following the sale and the remainder the following month (second month following sale). Depreciation, insurance, and property tax expense represent $9,000 of the estimated monthly manufacturing costs. The annual insurance premium is paid in January, and the annual property taxes are paid in December. Of the remainder of the manufacturing costs, 80% are expected to be paid in the month in which they are incurred and the balance in the following month.

Current assets as of September 1 include cash of $42,000, marketable securities of $60,000, and accounts receivable of $123,700 ($26,700 from July sales and $97,000 from August sales). Sales on account for July and August were $89,000 and $97,000, respectively. Current liabilities as of September 1 include $9,000 of accounts payable incurred in August for manufacturing costs. All selling and administrative expenses are paid in cash in the period they are incurred. An estimated income tax payment of $17,000 will be made in October. Bridgeport's regular quarterly dividend of $9,000 is expected to be declared in October and paid in November. Management desires to maintain a minimum cash balance of $41,000.

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1. monthly cash budget and supporting schedules for September, October, and November. Assume 360 days per year for interest calculations.

Line Item Description	September	October	November
Estimated cash receipts from:
Capital expendituresCash increase or (decrease)Cash salesDividendsIncome taxLess cash balance at beginning of monthLess minimum cash balanceManufacturing costsPlus cash balance at beginning of monthPlus minimum cash balance	$- Select -	$- Select -	$- Select -
Capital expendituresCash increase or (decrease)Collection of accounts receivableDividendsIncome taxLess cash balance at beginning of monthLess minimum cash balanceManufacturing costsPlus cash balance at beginning of monthPlus minimum cash balance	- Select -	- Select -	- Select -
Total cash receipts	$Total cash receipts	$Total cash receipts	$Total cash receipts
Less estimated cash payments for:
Capital expendituresCash increase or (decrease)Collection of accounts receivableDividendsIncome taxLess cash balance at beginning of monthLess minimum cash balanceManufacturing costsPlus cash balance at beginning of monthPlus minimum cash balance	$- Select -	$- Select -	$- Select -
Capital expendituresCash increase or (decrease)Collection of accounts receivableDividendsIncome taxLess cash balance at beginning of monthLess minimum cash balancePlus cash balance at beginning of monthPlus minimum cash balanceSelling and administrative expenses	- Select -	- Select -	- Select -
Capital expendituresCash increase or (decrease)Collection of accounts receivableDividendsIncome taxLess cash balance at beginning of monthLess minimum cash balancePlus cash balance at beginning of monthPlus minimum cash balanceSelling and administrative expenses			- Select -
Other purposes:
Capital expendituresCash increase or (decrease)Collection of accounts receivableDividendsIncome taxLess cash balance at beginning of monthLess minimum cash balancePlus cash balance at beginning of monthPlus minimum cash balanceSelling and administrative expenses		- Select -
Capital expendituresCash increase or (decrease)Collection of accounts receivableDividendsIncome taxLess cash balance at beginning of monthLess minimum cash balancePlus cash balance at beginning of monthPlus minimum cash balanceSelling and administrative expenses			- Select -
Total cash payments	$Total cash payments	$Total cash payments	$Total cash payments
Capital expendituresCash increase or (decrease)Collection of accounts receivableDividendsIncome taxLess cash balance at beginning of monthLess minimum cash balancePlus cash balance at beginning of monthPlus minimum cash balanceSelling and administrative expenses	$- Select -	$- Select -	- Select -
Capital expendituresCash increase or (decrease)Collection of accounts receivableDividendsIncome taxLess cash balance at beginning of monthLess minimum cash balancePlus cash balance at beginning of monthPlus minimum cash balanceSelling and administrative expenses	- Select -	- Select -	- Select -
Cash balance at end of month	$Cash balance at end of month	$Cash balance at end of month	$Cash balance at end of month
Capital expendituresCash increase or (decrease)Collection of accounts receivableDividendsIncome taxLess cash balance at beginning of monthLess minimum cash balancePlus cash balance at beginning of monthPlus minimum cash balanceSelling and administrative expenses	- Select -	- Select -	- Select -
Excess or (deficiency)	$Excess or (deficiency)	$Excess or (deficiency)	$Excess or (deficiency)

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2. On the basis of the cash budget prepared in part (1), what recommendation should be made to the controller?

The budget indicates that the minimum cash balance fill in the blank 1 of 4

willwill not

be maintained in November. This situation can be corrected by fill in the blank 2 of 4

investingborrowing

and/or by the fill in the blank 3 of 4

purchasesale

of the marketable securities, if they are held for such purposes. At the end of September and October, the cash balance will fill in the blank 4 of 4

exceedbe short of

the minimum desired balance.