Helen Bowers, owner of Helen's Fashion Designs, is planning to request a line of credit from her bank. She has estimated the following sales forecasts for the firm for parts of 2021 and 2022:

May 2021	$	160,000
June		160,000
July		320,000
August		480,000
September		640,000
October		320,000
November		320,000
December		80,000
January 2022		160,000

Estimates regarding payments obtained from the credit department are as follows: collected within the month of sale, 10%; collected the month following the sale, 75%; collected the second month following the sale, 15%. Payments for labor and raw materials are made the month after these services were provided. Here are the estimated costs of labor plus raw materials:

May 2021	$	80,000
June		80,000
July		112,000
August		784,000
September		240,000
October		192,000
November		128,000
December		80,000

General and administrative salaries are approximately $30,000 a month. Lease payments under long-term leases are $10,000 a month. Depreciation charges are $40,000 a month. Miscellaneous expenses are $1,500 a month. Income tax payments of $66,000 are due in September and December. A progress payment of $170,000 on a new design studio must be paid in October. Cash on hand on July 1 will be $122,000, and a minimum cash balance of $95,000 should be maintained throughout the cash budget period.

The data has been collected in the Microsoft Excel file below. Download the spreadsheet and perform the required analysis to answer the questions below. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to the nearest dollar. If your answer is zero, enter "0".

Download spreadsheet Cash Budgeting-b7026d.xlsx

Prepare a monthly cash budget for the last 6 months of 2021. All payments and expenses should be entered as positive numbers. Net cash losses, negative cash balance, negative cumulative cash, and cumulative loans outstanding, if any, should be indicated by a minus sign.

	July	August	September	October	November	December
Collections and purchases worksheet
Sales (gross)	$ fill in the blank 2	$ fill in the blank 3	$ fill in the blank 4	$ fill in the blank 5	$ fill in the blank 6	$ fill in the blank 7
Collections
During month of sale	$ fill in the blank 8	$ fill in the blank 9	$ fill in the blank 10	$ fill in the blank 11	$ fill in the blank 12	$ fill in the blank 13
During 1st month after sale	fill in the blank 14	fill in the blank 15	fill in the blank 16	fill in the blank 17	fill in the blank 18	fill in the blank 19
During 2nd month after sale	fill in the blank 20	fill in the blank 21	fill in the blank 22	fill in the blank 23	fill in the blank 24	fill in the blank 25
Total collections	$ fill in the blank 26	$ fill in the blank 27	$ fill in the blank 28	$ fill in the blank 29	$ fill in the blank 30	$ fill in the blank 31
Purchases
Labor and raw materials	$ fill in the blank 32	$ fill in the blank 33	$ fill in the blank 34	$ fill in the blank 35	$ fill in the blank 36	$ fill in the blank 37
Payments for labor and raw materials	$ fill in the blank 38	$ fill in the blank 39	$ fill in the blank 40	$ fill in the blank 41	$ fill in the blank 42	$ fill in the blank 43
Cash gain or loss for month
Collections	$ fill in the blank 44	$ fill in the blank 45	$ fill in the blank 46	$ fill in the blank 47	$ fill in the blank 48	$ fill in the blank 49
Payments for labor and raw materials	$ fill in the blank 50	$ fill in the blank 51	$ fill in the blank 52	$ fill in the blank 53	$ fill in the blank 54	$ fill in the blank 55
General and administrative salaries	fill in the blank 56	fill in the blank 57	fill in the blank 58	fill in the blank 59	fill in the blank 60	fill in the blank 61
Lease payments	fill in the blank 62	fill in the blank 63	fill in the blank 64	fill in the blank 65	fill in the blank 66	fill in the blank 67
Miscellaneous expenses	fill in the blank 68	fill in the blank 69	fill in the blank 70	fill in the blank 71	fill in the blank 72	fill in the blank 73
Income tax payments	fill in the blank 74	fill in the blank 75	fill in the blank 76	fill in the blank 77	fill in the blank 78	fill in the blank 79
Design studio payment	fill in the blank 80	fill in the blank 81	fill in the blank 82	fill in the blank 83	fill in the blank 84	fill in the blank 85
Total payments	$ fill in the blank 86	$ fill in the blank 87	$ fill in the blank 88	$ fill in the blank 89	$ fill in the blank 90	$ fill in the blank 91
Net cash gain (loss) during month	$ fill in the blank 92	$ fill in the blank 93	$ fill in the blank 94	$ fill in the blank 95	$ fill in the blank 96	$ fill in the blank 97
Loan requirement or cash surplus
Cash at start of month	$ fill in the blank 98	$ fill in the blank 99	$ fill in the blank 100	$ fill in the blank 101	$ fill in the blank 102	$ fill in the blank 103
Cumulative cash	$ fill in the blank 104	$ fill in the blank 105	$ fill in the blank 106	$ fill in the blank 107	$ fill in the blank 108	$ fill in the blank 109
Target cash balance	fill in the blank 110	fill in the blank 111	fill in the blank 112	fill in the blank 113	fill in the blank 114	fill in the blank 115
Cumulative surplus cash or loans
outstanding to maintain $95,000
target cash balance	$ fill in the blank 116	$ fill in the blank 117	$ fill in the blank 118	$ fill in the blank 119	$ fill in the blank 120	$ fill in the blank 121

Prepare monthly estimates of the required financing or excess fundsthat is, the amount of money Bowers will need to borrow or will have available to invest. Required financing, if any, should be indicated by a minus sign.

	Required financing or
	excess funds
July	$ fill in the blank 122
August	$ fill in the blank 123
September	$ fill in the blank 124
October	$ fill in the blank 125
November	$ fill in the blank 126
December	$ fill in the blank 127

Now suppose receipts from sales come in uniformly during the month (that is, cash receipts come in at the rate of 1/30 or 1/31 each day), but all outflows must be paid on the 5th. Will this affect the cash budget? That is, will the cash budget you prepared be valid under these assumptions? If not, what could be done to make a valid estimate of the peak financing requirements? No calculations are required, although if you prefer, you can use calculations to illustrate the effects.

In a situation, where inflows and outflows are not synchronized during the month, it

isis not

1. likely to be possible to use a cash budget centered on the end of the month. To make a valid estimate of the peak financing requirements, the company.

Bowers' sales are seasonal, and her company produces on a seasonal basis, just ahead of sales. Without making any calculations, discuss how the company's current and debt ratios would vary during the year if all financial requirements were met with short-term bank loans. Could changes in these ratios affect the firm's ability to obtain bank credit? Explain.

The months preceding peak sales would show

an increaseda decreased

1. current ratio anddebt-to-capital ratio due to additional short-term bank loans. In the following months as receipts are collected from sales, the current ratio wouldand the debt-to-capital ratio would. Abnormal changes in these ratiosaffect the firm's ability to obtain bank credit.

If Bowers' customers began to pay late, collections would slow down, thus increasing the required loan amount. If sales declined, this also would have an effect on the required loan. Do a sensitivity analysis that shows the effects of these two factors on the maximum loan requirement. Enter your answers as positive numbers.

To complete the sensitivity analysis, follow these steps in excel:

• Ensure that cell A60 is a reference to cell B56 (i.e. =B56).
• Select/highlight cells A60 through H69 (A60:H69).
• From the top ribbon, select Data > Forecast > What-If-Analysis > Data Table
• For row input cell click on cell B5 or enter $B$5.
• For column input cell click on cell B14 or manually enter $B$14.
• Click "Ok".

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