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Chapter 22: Q22-1E (page 1263)

Southeast Suites operates a regional hotel chain. Each hotel is operated by a manager and an assistant manager/controller. Many of the staff who run the front desk, clean the rooms, and prepare the breakfast buffet work part-time or have a second job, so employee turnover is high.

Assistant Manager/Controller Terry Dunn asked the new bookkeeper to help prepare the hotel’s master budget. The master budget is prepared once a year and is submitted to company headquarters for approval. Once approved, the master budget is used to evaluate the hotel’s performance. These performance evaluations affect hotel managers’ bonuses, and they also affect company decisions on which hotels deserve extra funds for capital improvements.

When the budget was almost complete, Dunn asked the bookkeeper to increase the amounts budgeted for labor and supplies by 15%. When asked why, Dunn responded that hotel manager Clay Murry told her to do this when she began working at the hotel. Murry explained that this budgetary cushion gave him flexibility in running the hotel. For example, because company headquarters tightly control capital improvement funds, Murry can use the extra money budgeted for labor and supplies to replace broken televisions or pay “bonuses” to keep valued employees. Dunn initially accepted this explanation because she had observed similar behavior at the hotel where she worked previously.

Requirements Put yourself in Dunn’s position. In deciding how to deal with the situation, answer the following questions:

1. What is the ethical issue?

2. What are the options?

3. What are the possible consequences?

4. What should you do?

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The ethical issue is that the assistant manager/controller Terry Dunn is increasing the budgeted figures for labor and supply by 15%.

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What is the ethical issue

The ethical issue is that the assistant manager/controller Terry Dunn is increasing the budgeted figures for labor and supply by 15%.

02

What are the options

The managers should review the budget and ask questions from the preparatory about the budgeted figures. Also, the past actual and budgeted figures should be

reviewed.

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Question: Preparing a financial budget—schedule of cash receipts, schedule cash payments, cash budget

Baxter Company’s budget committee provides the following information: December 31, 2017, account balances:

1. Prepare the schedule of cash receipts from customers for January and February 2018. Assume cash receipts are 80% in the month of the sale and 20% in the month following the sale.

2. Prepare the schedule of cash payments for purchases for January and February 2018. Assume purchases are paid 60% in the month of purchase and 40% in the month following the purchase.

3. Prepare the schedule of cash payments for selling and administrative expenses for January and February 2018. Assume 40% of the accrual for Salaries and Commissions Payable is for commissions and 60% is for salaries. The December 31 balance will be paid in January. Salaries and commissions are paid 30% in the month incurred and 70% in the following month. Rent and income tax expenses are paid as incurred. Insurance expense is an expiration of the prepaid amount.

4. Prepare the cash budget for January and February 2018. Assume no financing took place.

11. Kendall Company projects 2019 first quarter sales to be $10,000 and increase by 5% per quarter. Determine the projected sales for 2019 by quarter and in total. Round answers to the nearest dollar.

12. Friedman Company manufactures and sells bicycles. A popular model is the XC. The company expects to sell 1,500 XCs in 2018 and 1,800 XCs in 2019. At the beginning of 2018, Friedman has 350 XCs in Finished Goods Inventory and desires to have 10% of the next year’s sales available at the end of the year. How many XCs will Friedman need to produce in 2018?

Match the budget types to the definitions.

Budget Types Definitions

5. Financial a. Includes sales, production, and cost of goods sold budgets

6. Flexible b. Long-term budgets

7. Operating c. Includes only one level of sales volume

8. Operational d. Includes various levels of sales volumes

9. Static e. Short-term budgets

10. Strategic f. Includes the budgeted financial statements

Preparing a financial budget—budgeted income statement and balance sheet Ball Company has the following post-closing trial balance on December 31, 2018:

The company’s accounting department has gathered the following budgeting information for the first quarter of 2019:

Budgeted total sales, all on account $ 121,800 Budgeted purchases of merchandise inventory, all on account 60,400 Budgeted cost of goods sold 60,900 Budgeted selling and administrative expenses:

Commissions expense 6,090 Salaries expense 7,000 Rent expense 4,100 Depreciation expense 600 Insurance expense 400 Budgeted cash receipts from customers 125,840 Budgeted cash payments for merchandise inventory 67,775 Budgeted cash payments for salaries and commissions 14,822 Budgeted income tax expense 5,400 Additional information: Rent and income tax expenses are paid as incurred. Insurance expense is an expiration of the prepaid amount.

Requirements

  1. Prepare a budgeted income statement for the quarter ended March 31, 2019.
  2. 2. Prepare a budgeted balance sheet as of March 31, 2019.

What is the formula used to determine the amount of merchandise inventory to be purchased?
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