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Minden Company is a wholesale distributor of premium European chocolates. The company’s balance sheet as of April 30 is given below:

  

Minden Company
Balance Sheet
April 30
Assets
  Cash $ 15,100  
  Accounts receivable   74,750  
  Inventory   51,750  
  Buildings and equipment, net of depreciation  

233,000  

 

  Total assets $

374,600  

 



Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity
  Accounts payable $ 74,000  
  Note payable   11,500  
  Common stock   180,000  
  Retained earnings  

109,100  

 

  Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity $

374,600  

 




  

The company is in the process of preparing a budget for May and has assembled the following data:

  

a.

Sales are budgeted at $275,000 for May. Of these sales, $82,500 will be for cash; the remainder will be credit sales. One-half of a month’s credit sales are collected in the month the sales are made, and the remainder is collected in the following month. All of the April 30 accounts receivable will be collected in May.

b.

Purchases of inventory are expected to total $214,000 during May. These purchases will all be on account. Forty percent of all purchases are paid for in the month of purchase; the remainder are paid in the following month. All of the April 30 accounts payable to suppliers will be paid during May.

c. The May 31 inventory balance is budgeted at $87,000.
d.

Selling and administrative expenses for May are budgeted at $81,300, exclusive of depreciation. These expenses will be paid in cash. Depreciation is budgeted at $2,750 for the month.

e.

The note payable on the April 30 balance sheet will be paid during May, with $585 in interest. (All of the interest relates to May.)

f. New refrigerating equipment costing $10,800 will be purchased for cash during May.
g.

During May, the company will borrow $20,800 from its bank by giving a new note payable to the bank for that amount. The new note will be due in one year.

  

Required:
1-a.

Prepare a schedule of expected cash collections from sales and a schedule of expected cash disbursements for merchandise purchases..

   

  

1-b.

Prepare a cash budget for May. (Cash deficiency, repayments and interest should be indicated by a minus sign.)

   

  

2. Prepare a budgeted income statement for May.
   

  

3.

Prepare a budgeted balance sheet as of May 31.

   

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