Question 1
Ceylon Ltd produces and sells product X. The company is in the process of preparing its budgets for the first 6 months of 2020, and it expects sales units in January, February and March 2020 to be 12,000; 15,000 and 18,000 units respectively. Thereafter, it is expected that sales will increase at a rate of 20% per month until June 2020.
The following information regarding Product X is provided in the table below. It is expected that selling price and costs will remain stable in the foreseeable future.
Product X |
|
£ per unit |
|
Selling Price |
£325.00 |
Variable Costs of production |
|
Direct Material A (£15 per kg) |
£45.00 |
Unskilled Labour (£8 per hour) |
£16.00 |
Skilled labour (£20 per hour) |
£80.00 |
Variable production overhead (£10 per unit) |
£10.00 |
Other variable Cost |
|
Selling Cost (£4 per unit) |
£4.00 |
The management accountant has provided further information below:
REQUIRED
a.
Ceylon Ltd. Cash Budget For the month of April 2020 |
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Beginning cash balance | 300,000 | |
Add: Cash received from customers | ||
Cash sales of April ( 21,600 x 325 x 30 % x 0.95 ) | 2,000,700 | |
Credit sales of March ( 18,000 x 325 x 50 % ) | 2,925,000 | |
Credit sales of February ( 15,000 x 325 x 20 % ) | 975,000 | 5,900,700 |
Total cash available | 6,200,700 | |
Less: Cash disbursements for | ||
Purchase of direct materials | 945,171 | |
Direct labor ( 22,032 x 96 ) | 2,115,072 | |
Variable production overhead | 153,000 | |
Selling costs | 72,000 | |
Fixed production overheads | 710,000 | |
Purchase of insurance | 180,000 | |
Cash dividends | 2,000,000 | |
Total cash disbursements | 6,175,243 | |
Ending cash balance | 25,457 |
Workings:
i.
Production Budget | ||||
February | March | April | May | |
Budgeted Sales in Units | 15,000 | 18,000 | 21,600 | 25,920 |
Add: Desired ending inventory | 1,800 | 2,160 | 2,592 | 3,110 |
Total inventory needed | 16,800 | 20,160 | 24,192 | 29,030 |
Less: Beginning inventory | 1,500 | 1,800 | 2,160 | 2,592 |
Required production in units | 15,300 | 18,360 | 22,032 | 26,438 |
ii.
Direct Materials Budget | |||
March | April | May | |
Production in units | 18,360 | 22,032 | 26,438 |
Direct material qty. per unit | x 3 kg. | x 3 kg. | x 3 kg. |
Direct materials required in production | 55,080 | 66,096 | 79,314 |
Add: Desired ending inventory | 13,219.20 | 15,862.80 | |
Total direct materials needed | 68,299.20 | 81,958.80 | |
Less: Beginning inventory | 11,016 | 13,219.20 | |
Budgeted purchases in kgs. | 57,283.20 | 68,739.60 | |
Cost per kg. | 15 | 15 | |
Budgeted cost of direct materials purchases | 859,248 | 1,031,094 |
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