Question: ( ABC ) Inc. preparing their annual budget for 2 0 2 3 financial period. The following data were available concerning this period: - The

(ABC) Inc. preparing their annual budget for 2023 financial period. The following data were available concerning this period:
- The monthly sales in units:
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
12000
12500
10000
18000
20000
25000
25000
25000
20000
16000
12000
10000
- Sales of Jan and Feb 2024 are expected to be 13000 and 15000 units respectively.
- Sales price for the first four months is $20 and is expected to increase by 25% after that.
- The company has a policy to keep 20% of sales of the next month plus 1000 units as an inventory policy.
- Each unit required three raw materials to be produced as follow:
The raw material
DM (A)
DM (B)
DM
Quantity/unit
5 kg
3 kg
2 kg
Price/kg
$0.5
$0.75
0.40
- The company has a policy to keep 10% of next month production as ending inventory for (A) and (B) and 25% of DM (C).
- The company uses normal costing system in its plant. The plant has a machining department and an assembly department. The company allocates overhead costs based on two costs pools (the machining department OH allocated to production based on actual-machine hours, and the assembly department OH allocated to production based on actual direct labor hours). The budgeted costs and hours for 2013 were as follow:
Department
Machining
Assembly
Machine hours
616,500
112,000
DLH
305,250
411,000
Rate/DLH
$1.25/DLH
$1.75/DLH
OH costs
$246,600
$369,900
- Total budgeted marketing, distribution and customer service costs for the year are $898,500. Of this amount, $411,000 are considered fixed (and include depreciation of $135,000). The remainder varies with sales.
- The budgeted general and administrative costs includes the following monthly costs (all are fixed):
Salaries
$15,000
Rent
$5,000
Depreciations
$12,000
Insurance
$2,000
Others
$4,000
- The budgeted capitalized expenditures and revenues are as follow:
1. Paying to bonds payable an amount of $250,000 plus $25,000 as bonds interest during March 2013.
2. Purchasing equipment at a budgeted amount of $500,000, and sell the old equipment at a budgeted amount of $125,000. The purchase is expected to take place in June and selling the old equipment is expected to be in August.
3. There are rent revenues at an amount of $30,000 semi-annually, collected in July and January of each year.
- Cash from sales revenues are collected as follow: 40% in the month of sales, 30% in the month next of the month of sale, 22% in the month after, and the last 8% are uncollectible.
- Payment to DM (A) and (B) are as follow: 70% in the month of sale and 30% in the month next to the month of sale. Payment to DM (C) is in the same month of sale (i.e., all DM (C) purchases are in cash).
- Sales of Nov and Dec 2022 were 12,000 units and 11,000 units and the sales price was $19 per unit.
- Accounts payable in 31st of Dec 2022 was $55,000.
- All other expenses are paid as incurred.
- Cash beginning balance was $40,000.
- In case of deficit, the company will borrow the shortage from the bank at 12% annual interest rate.
- In case of surplus, the company will invest the extra cash in short term investment at a 6% annual return.
- The company will not borrow unless they sold their investment.

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