The following information applies to the questions displayed below.] We really need to get this new material-handling equipment in operation just after the new year begins. I hope we can finance it largely with cash and marketable securities, but if necessary we can get a short-term loan down at MetroBank. This statement by Beth Davies-Lowry, president of Global Electronics Company, concluded a meeting she had called with the firms top management. Global is a small, rapidly growing wholesaler of consumer electronic products. The firms main product lines are small kitchen appliances and power tools. Marcia Wilcox, Global Electronics general manager of marketing, has recently completed a sales forecast. She believes the companys sales during the first quarter of 20x1 will increase by 10 percent each month over the previous months sales. Then Wilcox expects sales to remain constant for several months. Globals projected balance sheet as of December 31, 20x0 is as follows: Cash $ 50,000 Accounts receivable 216,000 Marketable securities 20,000 Inventory 115,500 Buildings and equipment (net of accumulated depreciation) 542,000 Total assets $ 943,500 Accounts payable $ 154,350 Bond interest payable 4,000 Property taxes payable 6,000 Bonds payable (8%; due in 20x6) 120,000 Common stock 500,000 Retained earnings 159,150 Total liabilities and stockholders equity $ 943,500 Jack Hanson, the assistant controller, is now preparing a monthly budget for the first quarter of 20x1. In the process, the following information has been accumulated: 1. Projected sales for December of 20x0 are $300,000. Credit sales typically are 80 percent of total sales. Globals credit experience indicates that 10 percent of the credit sales are collected during the month of sale, and the remainder are collected during the following month. 2. Global Electronics cost of goods sold generally runs at 70 percent of sales. Inventory is purchased on account, and 30 percent of each months purchases are paid during the month of purchase. The remainder is paid during the following month. In order to have adequate stocks of inventory on hand, the firm attempts to have inventory at the end of each month equal to half of the next months projected cost of goods sold. 3. Hanson has estimated that Globals other monthly expenses will be as follows: Sales salaries $ 10,000 Advertising and promotion 16,000 Administrative salaries 10,000 Depreciation 30,000 Interest on bonds 800 Property taxes 1,500 In addition, sales commissions run at the rate of 1 percent of sales. 4. Global Electronics president, Davies-Lowry, has indicated that the firm should invest $115,000 in an automated inventory-handling system to control the movement of inventory in the firms warehouse just after the new year begins. These equipment purchases will be financed primarily from the firms cash and marketable securities. However, Davies-Lowry believes that the company needs to keep a minimum cash balance of $15,000. If necessary, the remainder of the equipment purchases will be financed using short-term credit from a local bank. The minimum period for such a loan is three months. Hanson believes short-term interest rates will be 10 percent per year at the time of the equipment purchases. If a loan is necessary, Davies-Lowry has decided it should be paid off by the end of the first quarter if possible. 5. Global Electronics board of directors has indicated an intention to declare and pay dividends of $75,000 on the last day of each quarter. 6. The interest on any short-term borrowing will be paid when the loan is repaid. Interest on Global Electronics bonds is paid semiannually on January 31 and July 31 for the preceding six-month period. 7. Property taxes are paid semiannually on February 28 and August 31 for the preceding six-month period. Required: Prepare Global Electronics Companys master budget for the first quarter of 20x1 by completing the following schedules and statements.