Cash Management And Budgeting
The new owner of Bob’s Boats, Bob, just purchased the business and discovered that the prior owner did not have a plan for managing the current assets of the company. Bob has decided that the place to start is with a cash budget, using the template he used in his prior position.
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Bob has requested that you to complete the cash budget given the data that he has already retrieved from the company’s records and from his own analysis.
Table-1:
Sales Forecast for the next 9 Months | ||
Month | Sales | |
January | $ 162,000.00 | |
February | $ 168,000.00 | |
March | $ 324,000.00 | |
April | $ 485,000.00 | |
May | $ 648,000.00 | |
June | $ 325,000.00 | |
July | $ 325,000.00 | |
August | $ 80,000.00 | |
September | $ 162,000.00 |
Collections on receivables have historically been collected as follows and this pattern is expected to continue:
- 12% in the Month of Sale