H10.MAS07 Master Budget
H10.MAS07 Master Budget
H10.MAS07 Master Budget
Introduction
During our previous discussions, we have already learned that the managerial accountant aids management in the
pursuit of the organization’s goals. Now as the organization keeps moving forward, how does management keep
track if it is meeting its goals? The company usually utilizes its financial planning and analysis (FP&A) system for this.
Planning activities helps the organization in setting its direction, without a formalized plan there will be no definite
goals to be achieved. Managers and individuals will not be aware of their targets and responsibilities.
Control activities usually involves comparing the actual results with the established plan (i.e., the benchmark). This
is to assess if the company is attaining its goals and if there are any deviations with the initial plan, and take any
corrective actions needed.
Both planning and control activities may be achieved through a budgetary process.
Purposes of Budgeting
A budget may be defined as a quantitative plan in allocating an organization’s resources for a specified period of time.
The budget period can be any length to suit the needs of the management.
Types of Planning
1. Strategic planning – is concerned with preparing the long-term action plans to attain the organizational
goals.
2. Budgetary planning – budgetary planning is concerned with the preparing the short-to medium-term plans
of the organization. An example would be the annual budget, which would be an interim step to achieve
the long-term goals of the company.
3. Operational planning – this refers to the day-to-day planning process. It is usually concerned with the
planning on how resources will be utilized to meet demand for the period.
Financial Planning and Analysis – The Master Budget JOR
Types of Budgets
There are several types of budgets with different purposes, some examples are the following:
1. Master budget – comprehensive budget covering all of the company’s operations. Master budgets are
divided into the following:
a. Operating budget – are budgets concerned with the income-generating activities of the firm:
sales, production and inventories.
b. Financial budgets – are concerned with the cash inflows and outflows.
2. Capital budget – pertains to capital investment, i.e., acquisition of long-term assets.
3. Financing budget – this is a budget on how the organization will be structured or finance, either through
debt or equity issuances.
4. Rolling budgets/Continuous/Revolving – are budgets that are continuously updated by adding a new time
period.
5. Zero-based budgeting – these are budgets that are started from scratch as if there was no previous
experience.
Participative budgeting
The budgeting process involves people from the lower levels of management to participate in the budgetary
process. This is often called the bottom-up process. The advantages are as follows:
a. Empowerment
b. Motivation
c. Improved quality of forecasts
The main disadvantage of participative budgeting is it might get more complex and might take up more time.
Please see below the components and relationships of the master budget
Sales Budget
*Purchasing budget
Production Budget
if merchandising
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Direct Direct Labor Overhead E
Materials Budget Budget R
Budget A
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Finished N
Goods A
Budget L
Budgeted Statement of
Income Budgeted Balance Sheet Cash Flows
Statement Budget
Financial Planning and Analysis – The Master Budget JOR
Sales forecasting is a critical and very difficult to perform. There are several ways in forecasting sales, the sales
department head might ask for sales personnel for their individual sales predictions. The major factors affecting the
forecast are as follows:
1. Historical sales
2. Economic trends and outlook
3. The company’s industry trend
4. Political outlook
5. Market research
6. Competitors’ actions
Sales Budget
In the preparation of the master budget, the sales budget is always prepared first before the other budgets can be
constructed.
AngkaTeaMo produces and sells its own bottled milk tea. The company expects more sales during summer time.
With a slight decline during the rainy days. The selling price of the company’s product is expected to rise by 10%
beginning on the 3rd quarter. The selling price of each milk tea is P150.
What if the company sells two products? Wintermelon and Roasted Okinawa. The sales mix of the company is 3:1. The
selling price of Wintermelon and Roasted Okinawa is P150 and P170. The price increase is still expected starting at the 3rd
quarter.
Sales Budget
For the Year Ending December 31, 2020
First Quarter Second Third Quarter Fourth Annual
Quarter Quarter
Wintermelon
Unit Sales 75,000 (100,000 112,500 (150,000 60,000 (80,000 x 90,000 (120,000 337,500
x ¾) x ¾) ¾) x ¾)
Selling price P150 P150 P165 P165 −
Sales P11,250,000 P16,875,000 P9,900,000 P14,850,000 P52,785,000
Roasted Okinawa
Unit Sales 25,000 (100,000 37,500 (150,000 20,000 (80,000 x 30,000 (120,000 112,500
x ¼) x ¼) ¼) x ¼)
Selling price P170 P170 P187 P187 −
Sales P4,250,000 P6,375,000 P3,740,000 P5,610,000 19,975,000
Total Sales P15,500,000 P23,250,000 P13,640,000 P20,460,000 P72,850,00
Financial Planning and Analysis – The Master Budget JOR
Production Budget
After preparing the sales budget, we now know how many units are expected to be sold. Now management must
determine the number of units to be produced in order to meet the sales needs and the number of expected
ending inventories.
The production budget is expressed in number of units. The cost is determined by the proceeding budgets.
Continuing our example with AngkaTeaMo (assuming there is only one product):
The company budgeted the following ending inventory for 2020 and 2019:
First Quarter Second Quarter Third Quarter Fourth Quarter
Ending Inventory 20,000 20,000 15,000 15,000
Another illustration: AngkaTeaMo, desires an ending inventory of 10% of the sales for the next quarter.
The units produced in the 2nd illustration will be used for the proceeding budgets.
Financial Planning and Analysis – The Master Budget JOR
Raw materials needed for production + Planned ending inventory = Total raw materials required
Total raw material required – Expected beginning inventory of raw material = Raw materials to be purchased
AngkaTeaMo’s bottle of milk tea requires 5 ounces of oolong tea and 20 grams of black pearl. Oolong tea costs
P12.5 per ounce while the pearls cost P1.50 per gram. An entity should prepare a direct material budget for each
material used in the production.
It is the company’s policy to maintain an ending inventory of 10% of raw materials to be used in the following
quarter.
The relationship between the production budget and the raw material purchases is very important especially for
manufacturing firms.
A batch of bottled milk tea usually include two steps to complete production, mixing and packaging. Laborers need
2 hours to mix the batch at P48. While, 1 hour is needed to finish packaging at P40 per hour.
Units to be produced x required DLH = Direct labor hours needed for production
Direct labor hours x Direct labor rate = Direct labor cost
The budgeted direct labor cost for each quarter are as follows:
First Quarter Second Quarter Third Quarter Fourth Quarter Annual
Direct labor
cost P285,600 P388,960 P228,480 P320,960 P1,224,000
Financial Planning and Analysis – The Master Budget JOR
The direct labor rate is usually the average rate associated with production. Since, there might be differing rates
for each individual workers.
Overhead Budget
The overhead budget contains the indirect items related to production. For the overhead budget, there is no input-
output relationship unlike with the direct material and direct labor budget. This is because the overhead contains
two types: variable overhead and fixed overhead.
Because overhead rates are usually the average cost of all indirect costs of production it is usually impracticable to
trace the input-out relationship between these costs.
Using the information above we can use the cost function to determine the overhead budget; y = a + b(x)
*Direct labor hours is obtained by adding the budgeted direct labor hours per production process (i.e., mixing and
packaging) per quarter.
Financial Planning and Analysis – The Master Budget JOR
We just need to multiply the ending inventory in units to its unit cost to get the cost of ending inventory. Based on
the production budget, the planned ending inventory for the 4th quarter is 10,000 units.
AngkaTeaMo revealed that the cost of beginning inventory amounted to P525,500. Since the production cycle of
the company is very short, there are no beginning nor ending work-in-process inventory.
CGS Schedule
Direct Material P41,625,000
Direct Labor 1,224,000
Overhead 3,645,000
Total
Manufacturing
costs P46,494,000
Add: Beginning
Inventory,
Finished Goods P525,000
Cost of Goods
Available for Sale P47,019,000
Less: Ending
Inventory,
Finished Goods (P1,033,200)
Cost of Goods
Sold P45,985,800
Query: What if not all units put into production are finished? Let us assume the same given, but instead, AngkaTeaMo’s
production is somewhat inefficient and only finishes 90% of its goods put into process every year. If this is the case we need
to prepare the cost of goods manufactured budget. The WIP ending inventory for 2019 amounted to P4,350,000.
AngkaTeaMo provided the following information regarding its selling, general and administrative expnses:
• Selling expenses of P14 per unit sale
• Sales commissions of 5% of sales
• Marketing Expenses of P15,000 per month
• Depreciation of the building headquarters amounting to P750,000 per quarter
• Salaries of office personnel P350,000 per quarter.
SG&A Budget
First Quarter Second Quarter Third Quarter Fourth Quarter Annual
Unit Sales 100,000 150,000 80,000 120,000 450,000
Multiplied by: P14 P14 P14 P14
Selling costs
per unit −
Selling costs 1,400,000 2,100,000 1,120,000 1,680,000 6,300,000
Volume of sales P15,000,000 P22,500,000 P13,200,000 P19,800,000 P70,500,000
Multiplied by:
Selling
Commission
rate 5% 5% 5% 5% −
Budgeted Sales
Commissions 750,000 1,125,000 660,000 990,000 3,525,000
Budgeted
Variable SG&A P2,150,000 P3,225,000 P1,780,000 P2,670,000 9,825,000
Add: Budgeted
Fixed SG&A P1,145,000 P1,145,000 P1,145,000 P1,145,000 4,580,000
Budgeted
SG&A P3,295,000 P4,370,000 P2,925,000 P3,815,000 P14,405,000
Cash Budget
Beginning Cash Balance XX
Add: Cash Receipts XX
Cash available XX
Less: Cash disbursements (XX)
Less: Minimum cash
balance (XX)
Excess or (deficiency) of
cash XX/(XX)
Less: Loan/Interest
Repayments (XX)
Add: Loan proceeds XX
Add: Minimum cash
balance XX
Ending Cash Balance XX
Once the cash budget has been determined, the company can make plans on what to make of the deficiency or
investment of surpluses.
If an organization has been in the industry for a while, it may already have an idea on when the cash inflows will be
collected. The main task of any cash receipts budget is to anticipate cash collections, and one way to do that is to
prepare an accounts receivable aging. The aging schedule allows the company to estimate the cash inflows in the
months following the sales.
To illustrate:
Recall from the sales budget that during 2020, the following were the budgeted sales for each quarter:
Sales Budget
For the Year Ending December 31, 2020
First Quarter Second Third Quarter Fourth Annual
Quarter Quarter
Unit Sales 100,000 150,000 80,000 120,000 450,000
Selling price P150 P150 P165 P165 −
Sales P15,000,000 P22,500,000 P13,200,000 P19,800,000 P70,500,000
AngkaTeaMo’s experience is that 30% of the sales are cash sales, and the remaining are on credit. Of the sales on
account 80% are collected during the quarter of sale and the remaining 20% are collected in the quarter following
the sale.
Financial Planning and Analysis – The Master Budget JOR
1
P13,860,000 x 20% = P2,772,000; do this if the problem is silent, if there is a given sale for the prior year use that.
2
P10,500,000 x 80% = P8,400,000; P10,500,000 x 20% = P2,100,000
3
P15,750,000 x 80% = P12,600,000; P15,750,00 x 20% = P3,150,000
4
P9,240,000 x 80% = P7,392,000; P9,240,000 x 20% = P1,848,000
5
P13,860,000 x 80% = P11,088,000
Financial Planning and Analysis – The Master Budget JOR
Query: What if the ageing contains an allowance for uncollectible accounts? What would happen to the budgeted
collections? Let us assume the same given except that 60% is collected during the quarter of sale, 25% is collected during
the following quarter, 10% following the second quarter after sale. The remaining 5% is the allowance for uncollectible
accounts.
1
P9,240,000 x 10% = P924,000
2
P13,860,000 x 25% = P3,465,000; P13,860,000 x 10% = P1,386,000
3
P10,500,000 x 60% = P6,300,000; P10,500,000 x 25% = P2,625,000; P10,500,000 x 10% = P1,050,000
4
P15,750,000 x 60% = P9,450,000; P15,750,000 x 25% = P3,937,500; P15,750,000 x 10% = P1,575,000
5
P9,240,000 x 60% = P5,544,000; P9,240,000 x 25% = P2,310,000
6
P13,860,000 x 60% = P8,316,000
Notice that the 5% allowance for uncollectible account is not reflected in the cash receipts budget. This is because
there is no collections pertaining to the uncollectible accounts, they are instead presented under the budgeted
income statement as bad debts expense.
Financial Planning and Analysis – The Master Budget JOR
The minimum cash balance is considered to be the cash reserves of the organization. This is the lowest balance of
cash acceptable by the entity.
Cash balances below the minimum acceptable balance would be considered to be a deficiency. If this is the case,
the company may need to make short-term loans to maintain the minimum balance. On the other hand, if there
are cash surpluses, meaning excess cash is available, the company may consider to repay loans or make temporary
investments.
So far we have discussed the operating cash flows of the cash budget. Looking at the cash budget below, there are
also the financing section of the cash budget, which are, obtaining loans and repayment of loans and interest.
Cash Budget
Beginning Cash Balance XX
Add: Cash Receipts XX
Cash available XX
Less: Cash disbursements (XX)
Less: Minimum cash
balance (XX)
Excess or (deficiency) of
cash XX/(XX)
Less: Loan/Interest
Repayments (XX)
Add: Loan proceeds XX
Add: Minimum cash
balance XX
Ending Cash Balance XX
The proceeds are added while the loan repayments are deducted to obtain the ending cash balance.
To illustrate the cash disbursement budget please refer to the following information below:
• AngkaTeaMo’s minimum cash balance is P1,500,000 every end of quarter. The beginning cash balance at
the end of December 31, 2019 is P1,580,000.
• All direct material purchases are made on account; 40% of the purchases are paid during the month of
purchase, while the remaining 60% is paid on the following quarter.
• The SG&A expenses are all paid every end of month.
• Conversion costs are also paid at the end of each month.
• The income tax of P3,032,760 is paid at the end of the year.
• AngkaTeaMo plans to purchase a machine to increase production capacity. The purchase is expected to
be made at the beginning of January 2020. The machine costs P2,200,000.
• The company also plans to expand its business to other parts of the country, it plans to purchase a plot of
land costing P5,800,000 during the 2nd quarter.
• Money can be borrowed and repaid in multiples of P100,000. Interest is 12% per annum. All borrowing
takes place at the beginning of the quarter, and all repayments takes place at the end of the quarter.
Interest payments are made at the end of each month.
Based on the following information, the cash budget is prepared in the next page.
Financial Planning and Analysis – The Master Budget JOR
Disbursements:
Purchase payments
Current quarter1 P4,025,600 P5,072,700 P3,233,800 P4,317,900 P16,650,000
Prior quarter1 P6,476,850 P6,038,400 P7,609,050 P4,850,700 P24,975,000
Direct labor P285,600 P388,960 P228,480 P320,960 P1,224,000
Overhead2 P695,500 P775,300 P651,400 P722,800 P2,845,000
Financing activities:
Loan proceeds P500,000 P300,000 − − P800,000
Repayments − − (P500,000) (P300,000) (P800,000)
Interest4 (P15,000) (P24,000) (P24,000) (P9,000) (P72,000)
Total Financing P485,000 P276,000 (P524,000) (P309,000) (P72,000)
Add: Minimum cash
balance P1,500,000 P1,500,000 P1,500,000 P1,500,000 P1,500,000
Ending Cash
balance P1,508,450 P1,539,090 P1,619,360 P3,876,240 P3,876,240
1
Obtained the material purchases from the direct material budget (Purchases x Expected Pattern of Payments).
2
Obtained from the overhead budget, after excluding the depreciation of P200,000 since there is no cash
disbursement associated with depreciation.
3
Obtained from the SG&A budget, after excluding the depreciation of P750,000 since there is no cash
disbursement associated with depreciation.
4
Computed as Principal x Interest rate x number of months P500,000 x 1% x 3 months = P15,000; The interest
on the P300,000 will start on the 2nd quarter, P300,000 x 1% x 3 months = P9,000.
Financial Planning and Analysis – The Master Budget JOR
Only the highlighted can be illustrated in the discussion since we have no other information pertaining to other
assets and liabilities of AngkaTeaMo. After preparing the operational and financial budgets, we are now able to
proceed with the preparation of the income statement and cash flows. Let us assume that the corporate income
tax applicable to the entity is 30%.
1
Obtained from the sales budget for 2020
2
Obtained from the CGS budget for 2020
3
Obtained from the SG&A budget for 2020
Behavioral impacts might be positive in which, the budgets are implemented in a way that promotes goal
congruence. Goal congruence is when the manager and the organization work towards the same ultimate
outcome. On the other hand, budgets may also have a negative impact. This may happen in various ways, but
ultimately this is the conflict between goals of the individual and the goals of the organization, often referred to as
dysfunctional behavior.
An example regarding the dysfunctional behavior is when managers start to pad the budget. Padding the budget
means underestimating the revenues and overestimating the costs. This lessens the standard maintained and allows
for more errors and complacencies. The difference between the realistic budget and the padded budget is called
the budgetary slack.