You nave just started as an apprent$$ce at N$$a Art$$st stud$$o$,$ a distributor or earrings to var$$ous retail out$$ets Iocated in snopp$$ng malls across the country. In the past, the company has done very little in the way of budgeting and, at certain times of the year, has experienced a shortage of cash. Because you are well$-$trained in budgeting, you have decided to prepare a master budget for the upcoming second quarter. To this end, you have worked with accounting and other areas to gather the information assembled below.

The company sells many styles of earrings, but all are sold for the same price $-$$$13$ per pair. Actual sales of earrings for the last three months and budgeted sales for the next six months follow $($in pairs of earrings$)$:

$\backslash$table$[[$January $($actual$),20,600,$June $($budget$),50,600],[$February $($actual$),26,600,$July $($budget$),30,600],[$March $($actual$),40,600,$August $($budget$),28,600],[$April $($budget$),65,600,$September,$25,600],[$May $($budget$),100,600,,]]$

The concentration of sales before and during May is due to Mother's Day. Sufficient inventory should be on hand at the end of each month to supply $40\%$ of the earrings sold in the following month.

Suppliers are paid $$4\mathrm{.}30$ for a pair of earrings. One$-$half of a month's purchases is paid for in the month of purchase; the other half is paid for in the following month. All sales are on credit. Only $20\%$ of a month's sales are collected in the month of sale. An additional $70\%$ are collected in the following month, and the remaining $10\%$ are collected in the second month following sale. Bad debts have been negligible.

Monthly operating expenses for the company are given below:

$\backslash$table$[[$Sales commissions,$48$ of sales$],[$Fixed:$],[$Advertising$,$$$230,000\backslash$table$[[$Assets$,],[$Cash$,$$$77,000$