In this assignment, you need to produce a budget report for a business based on one of the three proposals you choose. This assignment includes preparing two budgets (a budgeted income statement and a cash budget) and a report based on the forecasted numbers from these two budgets. The case study is described in detail below. You (and your team) work in a boutique firm called Business Advisory Pty. Ltd., a business that provides strategic and financial advice to other businesses. Your role in the firm is that of a business consultant. To this end, you are often required to produce financial forecasts and budget reports for clients. Mr. James Hunter and Dr. Olivia Ng (Optometrist) are business partners who have approached your firm looking for business advice. Given the current global COVID-19 pandemic, business has been slow and so the clients would like to take this opportunity and take their business to the next level. Their business is an optometry business trading under the name i-Optometry. The business is a brick-and-mortar store located in Burwood and retails eyewear, that is, sunglasses and prescription glasses. They also provide optometry services to customers in the form of comprehensive eye-tests. As part of their business operations, i-Optometry retails the following types of eyewear: Sunglasses retail for $200 each. It costs $60 each and the business purchases them from a local supplier. Prescription glasses retail for $150 each. It costs $80 each to buy them from the same local supplier who provides the sunglasses. i-Optometry also provide comprehensive eye-tests to customers who wish to assess eye health. The selling price of one comprehensive eye-test is $75.

The owners believe that they can improve business by expanding their storefront. Specifically, they would like to increase the floorspace of the existing store to include some additional display cabinets and expand the number of eye-test rooms to reduce customer wait-time. Both owners have some reservations about this project as it would require large initial setup capital investments (i.e. cost of project or called initial setup costs) and loans required. However, given the current climate, it would be cheaper to do this now than later when the prices rebound.

Additional Notes: Note that for the purposes of the financial forecasts and budgets, you can assume all items are GST free. Due to COVID-19, i-Optometry is effectively shut down and the owners are planning to reopen on 1st January 2021. This effectively means year 2020 is a write-off and you can assume there to be no sales, costs, or purchases in December 2020.

your manager would like you and your team to complete the Cash Budget for the project your team has selected and for the period between January 2021 to December 2021 inclusive.

FactSheet - Data on 2019 Financial Year Sales Volume - Sunglasses Sales Volume - Prescription glasses Service Volume - No. of Eye-tests Jan-2019 175 116 105 Feb-2019 184 121 110 Mar-2019 159 127 115 Apr-2019 164 120 109 May-2019 154 131 119 Jun-2019 205 206 187 Jul-2019 197 199 181 Aug-2019 174 160 145 Sep-2019 130 144 131 Oct-2019 160 139 126 Nov-2019 175 191 174 Dec-2019 188 198 180 Selling Price - Sunglasses Cost Price - Sunglasses $ $ 200.00 60.00 Selling Price - Prescription glasses Cost Price - Prescription glasses $ $ 150.00 80.00 Service Revenue per eye-test $ 75.00 Number of Sale Assistants: Wage Rate per Employee per Month 2. 4,000 $ Number of Office Staff: Wage Rate per Employee per Month 1 4,500 $ Number of Optometrists Wage Rate per Employee per Month 2 6,500 $ Additional Information: Both James and Olivia are owners within the business and each of them draws an amount of $1784 per month. Each owner plans on increasing the drawings to $3568 month starting from January of 2021. As the manager, James keeps a close eye on inventory management and would like to always maintain a monthly ending inventory requirement of 30% of next month's sales. You can assume the beginning inventory for Jan 2021 to be o units for both sunglasses and prescription glasses. All purchases of inventory with the current supplier are on a credit basis, with 70% of the amount settled in the same month of purchase and the remaining 30% settled one month after the month of purchase. You can assume that all credit amounts for purchase of inventory prior to January 2021 have been settled. The business typically will have 80% of their sales of sunglasses and prescription glasses as cash, with the remaining 20% on credit. Of the credit sales, 70% is collected in the month of sales, 20% is collected one month after the sales, and 10% is collected two months after the sales. You can assume that all credit amounts for sale inventory prior to January 2021 have been settled All customers coming in for an eye-test pay for the service in cash 100% of the time. The business has the following non-current assets: In 2019, the business purchased specialised optometry equipment to provide comprehensive eye-tests. The total cost of equipment is $13620 and it is expected to last 5 years. Other office equipment has a total cost of $30480 and depreciates at 20% per annum. Shop Fittings were originally purchased at $64920 and depreciate at 10% per annum. All non-current assets have $0 residual value and are depreciated using the straight-line method of depreciation. Other Fixed Costs: Marketing expense of $900 per annumis paid evenly across 12 months. $3000 of general business insurance is paid in July every year. This insurance covers the period 1st Jan to 31st Dec every year. (100% office) Bank fees works out to be $48 per month and are paid at the start of each quarter. On average, the office supplies are purchased, paid and expensed every month to the amount of $90. General council rates are $792 per year and are usually paid in December every year. The rates cover the period 1st Jan to 31st Dec every year. (50% store: 50% office) Rent is paid at the start of each quarter and works out to be $6400 per month. (80% store: 20% office) Water, gas and electricity are combined under utility expense which adds up to $510 per quarter and is usually paid at the end of each quarter. (75% store: 25% office) "Note: Quarter 1 runs from 1 Jan-31 Mar; Quarter 2 runs from 1 Apr - 30 Jun; Quarter 3 runs from 1 Jul - 30 Sep: Quarter 4 runs from 10ct - 31 Dec. CASH BUDGET Jan-21 Feb-21 Mar-21 Apr-21 May-21 Jun-21 Jul-21 Aug-21 Sep-21 Oct-21 Nov-21 Dec-21 TOTAL OPENING CASH BALANCE CASH INFLOWS: TOTAL CASH AVAILABLE: CASH OUTFLOWS CLOSING CASH BALANCE