Personal Budget

At the beginning of the school year, Craig Kovar decided to prepare a cash budget for the months of September, October, November, and December. The budget must plan for enough cash on December 31 to pay the spring semester tuition, which is the same as the fall tuition. The following information relates to the budget:

Cash balance, September 1 (from a summer job)	$8,610
Purchase season football tickets in September	120
Additional entertainment for each month	300
Pay fall semester tuition in September	4,600
Pay rent at the beginning of each month	420
Pay for food each month	240
Pay apartment deposit on September 2 (to be returned December 15)	600
Part-time job earnings each month (net of taxes)	1,070

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a. Prepare a cash budget for September, October, November, and December. Use the minus sign to indicate cash outflows, a decrease in cash or cash payments.

Craig Kovar Cash Budget For the Four Months Ending December 31

	September	October	November	December
Estimated cash receipts from:
Additional entertainmentFoodPart-time jobRentTuition	$- Select -	$- Select -	$- Select -	$- Select -
Additional entertainmentDepositFoodRentTuition				- Select -
Total cash receipts	$fill in the blank 57cf6906cff8f82_8	$fill in the blank 57cf6906cff8f82_9	$fill in the blank 57cf6906cff8f82_10	$fill in the blank 57cf6906cff8f82_11
Less estimated cash payments for:
CashInsuranceMovie ticketsPart-time jobSeason football tickets	$- Select -
Additional entertainmentCashInsuranceMovie ticketsPart-time job	- Select -	$- Select -	$- Select -	$- Select -
CashInsuranceMovie ticketsPart-time jobTuition	- Select -
CashInsuranceMovie ticketsPart-time jobRent	- Select -	- Select -	- Select -	- Select -
CashFoodInsuranceMovie ticketsPart-time job	- Select -	- Select -	- Select -	- Select -
DepositInsuranceMovie ticketsPart-time jobPrepaid rent	- Select -
Total cash payments	$fill in the blank 57cf6906cff8f82_33	$fill in the blank 57cf6906cff8f82_34	$fill in the blank 57cf6906cff8f82_35	$fill in the blank 57cf6906cff8f82_36
Cash increase (decrease)	$fill in the blank 57cf6906cff8f82_37	$fill in the blank 57cf6906cff8f82_38	$fill in the blank 57cf6906cff8f82_39	$fill in the blank 57cf6906cff8f82_40
Less cash balance at beginning of monthPlus cash balance at beginning of month	- Select -	- Select -	- Select -	- Select -
Cash balance at end of month	$fill in the blank 57cf6906cff8f82_46	$fill in the blank 57cf6906cff8f82_47	$fill in the blank 57cf6906cff8f82_48	$fill in the blank 57cf6906cff8f82_49

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b. Are the four monthly budgets that are presented prepared as static budgets or flexible budgets?

StaticFlexible

c. What are the budget implications for Craig Kovar?

Craig can see that his present plan

will providewill not provide

sufficient cash. If Craig did not budget but went ahead with the original plan, he would be $fill in the blank 348c9906bffbf98_3

overshort

at the end of December, with no time left to adjust.