Question

Walker Company prepares monthly budgets. The current budget plans for a September ending inventory of 30,000 units. Company policy is to end each month with merchandise inventory equal to a specified percent of budgeted sales for the following month. Budgeted sales and merchandise purchases for the next three months follow.
Sales (Units) Purchases (Units)
July 180,000 200,250
August 315,000 308,250
September 270,000 259,500
(1) Prepare the merchandise purchases budget for the months of July, August, and September.

Answer 1

Answer:

Merchandise purchases budget explanations only.

Explanation:

Hi, your question has missing information, however i have supplied explanations below.

A purchases budget is required to determine the quantities of purchases required for :

1. Resale - For Merchandisers
2. Use in Production in case of Manufacturer

Here is the structure of the merchandise purchases budget for Walker Company (Merchandiser).

Merchandise purchases budget

                                                                       Month

Budgeted Sales                                                  x

Add Budgeted Inventory                                   x

Total Purchases needed                                    x

Less Budgeted Opening Inventory                  (x)

Budgeted Purchases                                          x

As stated by the question : Company policy is to end each month with merchandise inventory equal to a specified percent of budgeted sales for the following month.

Ending Inventory = Next months` sales x required percentage

Ending Inventory for one month say July becomes Opening Inventory for the following month (August) for our merchandise purchases budget.