Question: Please help me with this question! I am not sure If I am doing right. I tried to finish January but I am confused. Fayette

Please help me with this question! I am not sure If I am doing right. I tried to finish January but I am confused.

Fayette Medical Clinic has budgeted the following cash flows:

January February March
Cash receipts $ 240,000 $ 232,000 $ 272,000
Cash payments
For inventory purchases 220,000 164,000 190,000
For S&A expenses 62,000 64,000 54,000

Fayette Medical had a cash balance of $16,000 on January 1. The company desires to maintain a cash cushion of $10,000. Funds are assumed to be borrowed, in increments of $2,000, and repaid on the last day of each month; the interest rate is 1 percent per month. Repayments may be made in any amount available. Fayette pays its vendors on the last day of the month also. The company had a monthly $80,000 beginning balance in its line of credit liability account from this years quarterly results.

Required

Prepare a cash budget. (Any repayments/shortage should be indicated with a minus sign. Round intermediate and final answers to the nearest whole dollar amounts.)

Cash Budget January February March
Beginning cash balance $16,000
Add: Cash receipts 240,000
Cash available 256,000
Less: Cash payments
For inventory purchases 220,000
For S&A expenses 62,000
Interest expense per month 800
Total budgeted payments 282,800
Payments minus receipts
Surplus (shortage) (26,800)
Financing Activity
Borrowing (repayment)
Ending cash balance

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