The president of Univax, Inc., has just approached the company's bank seeking short-term financing for the coming year, Year 2. Univax is a distributor of commercial vacuum cleaners. The bank has stated that the loan request must be accompanied by a detailed cash budget that shows the quarters in which financing will be needed, as well as the amounts that will be needed and the quarters in which repayments can be made.

To provide this information for the bank, the president has directed that the following data be gathered from which a cash budget can be prepared:

a. Budgeted sales and merchandise purchases for Year 2, as well as actual sales and purchases for the last quarter of Year 1, are as follows:

Merchandise Sales Purchases Year 1: $ 2,000,000 $1,000,000 Fourth quarter actual Year 2: First quarter estimated 2,100,000 $1,260,000 Second quarter estimated $ 1,850,000 $1,147,000 Third quarter estimated $ 2,650,000 $1,590,000 Fourth quarter estimated $ 3,230,000 $1,938,000 b. The company typically collects 48% of a quarter's sales before the quarter ends and another 50% in the following quarter. The remainder is uncollectible. This pattern of collections is now being experienced in C. Some 20% of a quarter's merchandise purchases are paid for within the quarter. The remainder is paid d. Selling and administrative expenses for Year 2 are budgeted at $645,000 per quarter plus 10% of sales. e. The company will pay $150,000 in cash dividends each quarter. the actual data for the Year 1 fourth quarter. in the following quarter. Of the fixed amount, $225,000 each quarter is depreciation. f. Land purchases will be made as follows during the year: $562,000 in the second quarter and $117,500 g. The Cash account contained $166,000 at the end of Year 1. The company must maintain a minimum h. The company has an agreement with a local bank that allows the company to borrow up to a total loan in the third quarter. cash balance of at least $22,000. balance of $1,500,000. The interest rate on these loans is 1% per month, and for simplicity, we will assume that interest is not compounded. The company would, as far as it is able, repay the loan plus accumulated interest at the end of the year At present, the company has no loans outstanding. i. Required 1a. Prepare a schedule of expected cash collections on sales by quarter and in total for Year 2(Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "O" wherever required.) Schedule of Expected Cash Collections Year 2 Quarter First Second Third Fourth Year- Total Year 1 - Fourth quarter sales Year 2-First quarter sales Year 2-Second quarter sales Year 2-Third quarter sales Year 2-Fourth quarter sales Total cash collections