Cash Control and Cash Budgets
Budgeted Income Statement and Budgeted Balance Sheet
What is a Budgeted Income Statement?
An estimate of expected revenues and expenses for a business, over a specific time period i.e. 1 year, 1 month or a specific event.
What is a Budgeted Balance Sheet?
An estimate of a business 's financial position (assets, liabilities and owners equity) which can be produced for both the start and end of a period of time (i.e. a year) or for a special event when preparing a business plan.
What is a Cash Budget?
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A report of the expected changes in the cash position of a business over a period of time (i.e. a year) or over a special event. It includes an estimate of expected cash receipts (cash
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• Holding an Optimum inventory level to avoid excessive holding costs (too much capital invested in inventory) or lost sales (stock outs due to too little capital invested in inventory). • Investment of idle surplus cash in short term investments to maximise returns. • Planning of capital expenditure (i.e. conversion of a room in a hotel into a snack bar) to match the timing of the cash inflows from the assets with the timing of the cash outflows costs of servicing their purchase.
Example 1 Estimated Receipts and Estimated Payments Ryugyong Hotel, North Korea
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The following details outline the expected cash transactions of Ryugyong Hotel during the three months ending 30th June 2008.
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Required:
Prepare a Cash Budget for the three months ended 30 June 2005 and comment on the expected cash position of Ryugyong Hotel.
Schedule of Receipts from Ryugyong Hotel,
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Ryugyong Hotel, Cash Budget
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Decisions taken in advance to avoid decline in liquidity
Possible Actions to Reduce Payments and/or Slow Down the Rate of payments include:
- Owners decrease personal cash drawings (take less cash out of the business)
- Delay or cancel further investment in non-current assets (make do with old)
- Lease assets rather than purchase assets, if lease payments are less than loan servicing outlays (principal + interest) on purchases of non-current assets
- Maximise credit terms
This means that stock levels of raw materials, work in progress, and even finished products are kept to a minimum. However, this system requires a very carefully planned scheduling for it to work. Inventory levels are closely monitored such that stock is only obtained when it is needed. This makes storage or warehousing easy since less space is required transportation as well.
Since, the company that I work for is a federally funded facility it looks differently than a company that would be creating a budget on estimates of sales revenue. Most companies start here because this determines how much advertising you think you need to achieve your predicted sales revenue, how much product you need to make the sales, and how many workers you will need to make the
* An income statement is a report that contains information in regards to an organizations’ assets and financing in order to obtain those assets that is collected over a certain period of time
The beginning cash balance for April, is the cash from March 31 in the Asset section of the balance sheet. In the merchandise purchases budget, in April, we need 50% of March purchases (that amount is also given to us 3/31 Accounts payable of $100,000 on page 415). Therefore, Total cash disbursements for April is (50% x $316,000 April purchases) + ($100,000 remaining March purchases to be paid) = $258,000.
Ensure sufficient stock of all items is kept in good order to meet foreseeable demands as per production plan.
The statement of cash flows presents investing and financing activities so that even noncash transactions of an investing and financing nature are disclosed in the financial statements. If they affect financial conditions significantly, the FASB requires that they be disclosed in either a separate schedule at the bottom of the statement of cash flows or in a separate note or supplementary schedule to the financial statements.
Financial statements depict a picture of the financial well-being of a business and are used for financial performance analysis (Nelson, 1942; Stichler, 2008). First, the statement of financial position consists the assets that are owned by the HCO, the liabilities that the HCO has to the outsiders, and a portion of the HCO’s assets that belong to its owners (Finkler et al., 2013). It is a balance sheet indicating what the HCO has and what the HCO owes at a specific
Adjusting the budget to reflect the current suppliers and labor requirements, for the certain amount of goods being produced. Using these number effectively can show if the company is under budgeted the volume the company is producing. It is very important to get a better understanding of variance to help in preparing and a successful budget.
The operations section of the Cash Flow statement would include changes made in cash, accounts receivable, depreciation, inventory, and accounts payable (Heakal, 2010). This would include purchases of inventory and the sales of products/services. George keeps inventory levels to a minimum as an attempt to keep cash spending at a minimum, so frequent
o Cash Outflows for payments for Other Debt were an estimated $850 each month prior to securing the second mortgage (i.e, April/10 to February/11)
The projection for cash indicates that each year within the three-year projection will end with a positive accumulated cash flow total.
Project cash flows – Evaluations of revenues, expenses, resulting cash flow, and the changes in revenues and expenses with the fulfilment of the acquisition of the capital request must be calculated and confirmed by management and the budget committee (Nowicki, 2015).
A budget refers to a financial plan that represents the allocation of the income to various expenditure channels such as expenses, savings, and debt repayment. A personal budget is important because avoiding financial surprises and keeping financial stress down helps avoid a crisis and allows you to focus on your overall goals. You cannot avoid all risks in life but if you plan your finances to live within your means, you can avoid being kicked out of your home, losing your car and other terrible things that a solid budget would help you avoid. Knowing what you can afford is a central life skill. Unfortunately, many do not budget even though they know they should (Wagoner, 2012).
In Chapter 4 we presented a short method for determining whether a firm had been building or burning cash. The short method sums the net cash used in operating activities and the net cash used in investing activities.
For this piece of assignment, a cash budget will be made for Doomy Corporation for the second quarter of the year. For this budget, all the sales figures for the second quarter and some of the expenditure have been given. Hence, to prepare a cash budget, the sales figure given will be used and some calculations will be worked out in order to fully prepare an outstanding budget for Doomy Corporation the following information will be used efficiently.