Question

The budget committee of SUppar Company collects the following data for its San Miguel store in preparing budgeted income statements for May and June 2017.

1. sales for may are expected to be 800,000. sales in June and July are expected to be 5% higher than the preceeding month.

2. Cost of good sold is expecte to be 70% of sales

3. Company policy is to maintain ending merchandise inventory at 10% of the following months cost of goods sold.

4. Operating expenses are estimated to be as follows:

  

sales	35,000 per month
advertising	6% of monthly sales
delivery expense	2% of monthly sales
sales commission	5% of monthly sales
rent expense	5,000 per month
depreciation	800 per month
utilites	600 per month
insurance	500 per month

interest expense is 2,000 per month. Income taxes are estimated to be 30% of income before income taxes.

a) prepare the merchandise purchases budget for each month in columnar form.

b) prepare budgeted multiple-step income statements for each month in columnar form. Show in the statements the details of cost of good sold.

Answer 1