You have just been hired as a new management trainee by Earrings Unlimited, a di

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You have just been hired as a new management trainee by Earrings Unlimited, a distributor of earrings to various retail outlets located in shopping malls across the country. In the past, the company has done very little in the way of budgeting and at certain times of the year has experienced a shortage of cash. Since you are well trained in budgeting, you have decided to prepare a master budget for the upcoming second quarter. To this end, you have worked with accounting and other areas to gather the information assembled below The company sells many styles of earrings, but all are sold for the same price-$13 per pair. Actual sales of earrings for the last three months and budgeted sales for the next six months follow (in pairs of earrings): January (actual) February (actual) March (actual) April (budget) May (budget) 21,400 June (budget) 27,400 July (budget) 41,400 August (budget) 66,400 September (budget) 26,400 51,400 31,400 29,400 101,400 The concentration of sales before and during May is due to Mother's Day. Sufficient inventory should be on hand at the end of each month to supply 40% of the earrings sold in the following month Suppliers are paid $4.70 for a pair of earrings. One-half of a month's purchases is paid for in the month of purchase; the other half is paid for in the following month. All sales are on credit. Only 20% of a month's sales are collected in the month of sale. An additional 70% is collected in the following month, and the remaining 10% is collected in the second month following sale. Bad debts have been negligible Monthly operating expenses for the company are given below:

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a. Sales budget by month and in total

b Schedule of expected cash collection

c. Merchandise purchase budget

d. Cash disbursement of merchandise purchase

April May June Quarter Budgeted sales in units 66400 101400 51400 219200 Selling price per unit 13 13 13 13 Total Sales 863200 1318200 668200 2849600

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