Overview of Master Budgets: What Is Master Budget?
Overview of Master Budgets: What Is Master Budget?
Overview of Master Budgets: What Is Master Budget?
The master budget consists of a number of separate but interdependent budgets that
formally lay out the company’s sales, production, and financial goals. The master budget
culminates in a cash budget, a budgeted income statement, and a budgeted balance sheet.
10 Questions
5) How much cash will we pay to our suppliers and our direct laborers, and how much
cash will we pay for manufacturing overhead resources?
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6) What is the total cost that will be transferred from finished goods inventory to cost
of good sold?
7) How much selling and administrative expense will we incur and how much cash will
be pay related to those expenses?
8) How much money will we borrow from or repay to lenders – including interest?
10) What will our balance sheet look like at the end of the budget period?
Sales budget:
3. What percentage of accounts receivable will be collected in the current and subsequent
periods?
Production budget:
1. What percentage of next period’s unit sales needs to be maintained in ending finished
goods inventory?
1. How many units of raw material are needed to make one unit of finished goods?
3. What percentage of next period’s production needs should be maintained in ending raw
materials inventory?
4. What percentage of raw material purchases will be paid in the current and subsequent
periods?
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Direct labour budget:
1. How many direct labour-hours are required per unit of finished goods?
1. What is the budgeted variable overhead cost per unit of the allocation base?
1. What is the budgeted variable selling and administrative expense per unit sold?
2. What is the total budgeted fixed selling and administrative expense per period?
Cash budget:
2. What are our estimated expenditures for noncurrent asset purchases and dividends?