QUESTION 2: VINSON LTD

VINSON Ltd's budgeted production and sales of shoes for Dec 2020 - Apr 2021 months are as follows:

	Production (UNITS)	Sales (UNITS)
December	500	400
January	550	500
February	600	550
March	700	600
April	800	700

The selling price per unit will be 180. All sales will be made on credit.

The business plans to offer a cash discount (of 10% of the amount owed) to those customers who pay within the same of the month of sale. Customers for 60% of units sold are expected to qualify for the discount. Remaining 40% of the sales is expected to be paid during the next month (i.e one month later).

It is planned that sufficient finished goods inventories for each months sales should be available at the end of the previous month.

For raw material purchases, the cost of raw material is 17 per unit. It is bought in the month of production and paid one month in arrears (i.e later).

The direct labour cost, which is variable with the level of production, is planned to be 25 per unit of finished production and it is paid in the month of production.

Overhead costs are planned to be 14,000 each month including 2,000 for depreciation. Overhead costs are paid in the same month.

Company bought an equipment for 300,000 in Jan and equal payments were made over Feb- Apr.

Opening cash balance at the start of Jan (1^st) is 40,000.

Required:

Draw up a cash budget for the 4 months from 1 January to 30 April 2021, with a column for each month. The budget should, among other things, show each end-of-month cash balance. (35 marks)