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Cash Budget

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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 …show more content…

• 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

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