Question: PLEASE ANSWER FULL QUESTIONS AND FILL IN THE BLANKS Widcat, Incorporated, has estimated sales ( in millions ) for the next four quarters as follows:

PLEASE ANSWER FULL QUESTIONS AND FILL IN THE BLANKS
Widcat, Incorporated, has estimated sales (in millions) for the next four quarters as follows:
\table[[,01,02,03,04],[Sales,$105,$125,$145,$175]]
Sales for the first quarter of the year after this one are projected at $120 million. Accounts recelvable at the beginning of the year were $47 million. Wildcat has a 45-day caliection periad.
Widcat's purchases from suppliers in a quarter are equal to 45 percent of the next quarter's forecast sales, and suppliers are normally paid in 36 days. Wages, tawes, and other expenses run about 20 percent of sales. Interest and dividends are $11 million per quarter.
Wideat plans a major capital outlay in the second quarter of $60 million. Finally, the company started the year with a $66 millian cash balance and wishes to maintain a $30 million minimum baiance.
a. Complete the following cash budget for Wildcat, Incorporated. (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate caiculations and enter your answers in mililons rounded to 2 decimal places, e.9.32.16. Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "O" wherever required.)
\table[[WILDCAT, INCORPORATED],[Cash Budget],[( millions)],[,ar,Q_(2),Q3,04],[Target eash balanos,66.00,,,],[Nut cash infow],[Ending cash balarob],[Mirimum cash balanse,-30.00,-30.00,-30.00,-30.00],[Cumbative surpius [doficix),,,,]]
Assume that Wildcat can borrow any needed funds on a short:term basis at a rate of 3 percent per quarter and can inwest any excess funds in short-term marketable securities at a rate of 2 percent per quarter.
b-1. Complete the following shortserm financial plan for Wildcat, Incorporated. (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answers in millions rounded to 2 decimal places, e.932.16. Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "O" wherever required.)
\table[[WLDCAT, INCORPORATED],[Shont-Term Finamseial Plan],[(in milliens)],[,at,Q_(2),Q3,Q4],[Target Eash balariou,3,30.60,$,30.00,$,30.00,$,30.00],[Nat cash imfow],[Now short-berm iewestmems],[Goome frow short-sem iewestmunts],[Shart-sarm ifwesiments soid],[Now shont-berm borrowing],[butareat on shont-tarmi bomowing],[Shon-sam barrowing repad],[Ending cash balanob],[Minimum cash balanse,,-30,,-30,,-30,,-30],[Comblation surpius [doficin)],[Beginning short-term investrwemta],[Ending shart-serm ifwusimunts],[Beginning short-term dabt],[Ending shori-sarm debt,,,,,,,,]]
b-2. What is the net cash cost fitotal interest paid minus total investment income earned) for the year? (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answers in millions rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g.,32.16. Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required.)
 PLEASE ANSWER FULL QUESTIONS AND FILL IN THE BLANKS Widcat, Incorporated,

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