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Harry buys his steel only after he receives a rm order. Thus. Harry only buys materials for and produces What he sells in a particular month. To build his business and gain new customers Harry has extended generous credit terms to his customers. While Harry is confident about the fundamentals of his business, he is concerned about the possible cash ow implications.

Harry informs you that he currently expects to collect 20% of sales in the month of the sale, 40% of sales in the month after the sale and 40% of sales two months later (for example 20% of February sales are collected in February, 40% in March and 40% in April). He pays for 80% of his materials purchases in the month of the purchase and 20% one month later. Costs of labor and overhead other than depreciation are paid in the same month they are incurred. His monthly xed selling and administrative costs. other than interest. amount to $320,000, of which $30,000 is depreciation. These costs also. excepting depreciation, are paid in the month incurred. There are no variable selling or administrative costs. Harry has large tax loss carry forwards from a previous unsuccessful business venture. Therefore he does not expect to pay any income taxes this year. (In other words you may ignore income taxes).

Sales revenues in February were $4,050,000 and in March were $4,150 .000 (these numbers do not agree with the excel sheet). Purchases in March were $1,350,000. The budgeted selling price of widgets for April. May, and June is $25 per widget. Harry provides the following information regarding his sales in units for the next 3 months: April 180,000 units, May 200,000 units and June 210,000 units.

The variable costs of producing a widget are budgeted at: $8 for materials, $5 for labor, and $7 for variable overhead. Fixed overhead is budgeted at $380,000 per month. The detailed components of xed and variable overhead are as listed below.

For variable overhead, supplies are budgeted at $1 per unit, electric power is budgeted at $4 per unit, and indirect labor is budgeted at $2 per unit. For fixed overhead depreciation is budgeted at $70,000 per month, Supervision and other salaries is budgeted at $180,000 per month. insurance is budgeted at $12,000 per month, maintenance is budgeted at $23,000 per month, licensing fees and permits to use proprietary technology are budgeted at 564.000 per month. and other miscellaneous xed expenses are budgeted at $31,000 per month.

Assume Harrys opening cash balance on April 1 is $25,000. Harry requires a minimum cash balance of $5,000 at the end of each month. The budgeted cash balance will fall below this level Harry plans to borrow enough cash at the hem 'ng of the month to keep his ending balance up to the minimum level. Harrys bank charges him interest at the rate of 1% per month (12% per year) on the balance outstanding during that month. Harry pays the interest at the beginning of the following month and plans to repay as much as he can without letting his cash balance go below $5,000. Assume no borrowings were outstanding as of April 1.

Required

1. Write a brief report explaining the most important reasons why Harry's prots were different from the amount projected in the master budget.