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Preparing Financial Budgets

Financial budgets convert operating plans into cash reality through the cash budget, which schedules receipts and disbursements across the period, and into the budgeted income statement and balance sheet.

1. Why cash gets its own budget

Why cash gets its own budget

2. The cash budget structure

The cash budget structure

3. Budgeted income statement and balance sheet

Budgeted income statement and balance sheet

4. Reading the cash story

Reading the cash story

5. Cash budget purpose

Why does the master budget include a separate cash budget?

6. Collections pattern

Sales are 500,000 dollars, with 60 percent collected in the month of sale and 40 percent the next month. Compute collections in the month of sale.

7. Minimum cash policy

Why does a cash budget maintain a minimum cash balance?

8. Articulation meaning

What does it mean that the budgeted statements must articulate?

9. Cash budget sections

The cash budget's three sections are receipts, disbursements, and cash ____ or deficiency. One word.

10. Balance sheet proof

The budgeted ____ sheet must balance, and its balance is the final arithmetic proof of the whole master budget. One word.

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