Using sensitivity analysis in budgeting

Refer to the Victors schedule of cash receipts from customers that you prepared in Short Exercise S22-15. Now assume that Victors’s sales are collected as follows:

40% in the month of the sale

20% in the month after the sale

39% two months after the sale

1% never collected

Prepare a revised schedule of cash receipts for January and February

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Answer

Total cash receipts from the customers are $513,520 in the month of January and $438,730 in the month of February.

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Meaning of schedule of cash receipts

A cash receipt schedule is created to record the cash received from customers.

02

Preparation of schedule of cash receipts

Particulars

January

February

Total budgeted sales

$702,000

$349,000

Cash receipts from customers:



40 % in the month of sale

$280,800

$139,600

20% in the month after sale

$407,000*20% =$81,400

$702,000*20% =$140,400

39% two months after sales

$388,000*39% =$151,320

$407,000*39% =$158,730

Total cash receipts from customers

$513,520

$438,730

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Why is the sales budget considered the cornerstone of the master budget?

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