Master Budget (40 peints) You have just been hired as a new management trainee by Earrings Unlimited, a distributor of earrings to various retail outlets located in shopping malls across the country. In the past, the company has done very little in the way of budgeting and at certain times of the year has experienced a shortage of cash. Since you are well trained in budgeting, you have decided to prepare comprehensive budgets for the upcoming second quarter in order to show management the benefits that can be gained from an integrated budgeting program. To this end, you have worked with accounting and other areas to gather the information assembled below The company sells many styles of earrings, but all are sold for the same price-$10 apair. Actual sales of earrings for the last three months and budgeted sales for the next six months follow (in pairs of earrings... not dollars) January (actual) February (actual) March (actual) 20,000 40,000 65,000September (budget) 25,000 July (budget) 30,000 August (budget) 28,000 May(budget) 1100,000 The concentration of sales before and during May is due to Mother's Day. Sufficient inventory should be on hand at the end ofeach month to supply 40% ofthe camngs sold in the following months Suppliers are paid $4 for a pair of earrings. Onehalf (50%) of a month's purchases is paid for in the month of purchase, the other half (50%) is paid for in the following month. All sales are on credit, with no discount, and payable within 15 days. The company has found, however, that only 20% of a month's sales are collected in the month of sale. An additional 70% is collected in the following month, and the remaining 10% is collected in the second month following sale. Month operating expenses for the company are given below Variable: Sales commissions | 4% of sales $200,000 $18,000 $106 $7,000 3,000 14,000 ng Rent Utilities Insurance is paid on an annual basis, in November of each year The company plans to purchase $16,000 in new equipment during May and $40,000 in new equipment during Junc; both purchases will be for cash. The company declares dividends of $15,000 each quarter, payable in the first month of the following quarter PAGE 717