Solomon Company is a retail company that specializes in selling outdoor camping equipment. The company is considering opening a new store on October 1 year 1. The company president formed a planning committee to prepare a master budget for the first three months of operation. As budget coordinator, you have been assigned the following tasks. Required a. October sales are estimated to be $310,000, of which 45 percent will be cash and 55 percent will be credit. The company expects sales to increase at the rate of 20 percent per month. Prepare a sales budget b. The company expects to collect 100 percent of the accounts receivable generated by credit sales in the month following the sale. Prepare a schedule of cash receipts. c. The cost of goods sold is 70 percent of sales. The company desires to maintain a minimum ending inventory equal to 20 percent of the next month's cost of goods sold. However, ending inventory of December is expected to be $13,300. Assume that all purchases are made on account, Prepare an inventory purchases budget d. The company pays 80 percent of accounts payable in the month of purchase and the remaining 20 percent in the following month. Prepare a cash payments budget for inventory purchases. e. Budgeted selling and administrative expenses per month follow. Salary expense (fixed) $19,300 Sales commissions 4% of Sales Supplies expense 2% of Sales Utilities (fixed) $ 2,700 Depreciation on store fixtures (fixed) $5,300 Rent (fixed) $6,100 $2,500 Miscellaneous (fixed) "The capital expenditures budget indicates that Solomon will spend $160,200 on October 1 for store fixtures, which are expected to