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in this episode we are going to look at the operational budgets portion of the master budget process operational budgets always begin with the sales budget it's the first step in ending budgeting process once the company's period sales are budgeted operational costs can then be planned such as merchandise purchases or production if they produce their own inventory and the preparing of selling in general and administrative budgets so let's begin with the sales budget if we look at a example ABC company monthly sales budget they are budgeting for the last quarter of 2019 but in order to go through the full budgeting process they have budgeted their sales through one additional month into January of 2020 so September of 2019 these are actual results and a month that they just are wrapping up budgeted sales for 700 units the budgeted unit price $100 per unit budgeted total sales for September of 70,000 going to the sales department we've asked these sales staff what they expect sales to be for the last quarter of 2019 and they have forecasted sales of a thousand units eight hundred units and fourteen hundred units for each of those months we can then project we budget to sell each unit for a hundred dollars each to get budgeted sales for the last quarter of 2019 we are also budgeting for the first month of January 2020 900 units are budgeted to be sold at $100 selling price budgeting 90,000 dollars of sales for the month of January once the company knows how much sales are expected they have budgeted for those levels they are then able to start budgeting and preparing for the amount of inventory needed to meet that level of sales so the next step is to prepare a merchandise purchases budget for menu jurors they would begin preparing production budgets but we're going to assume that this is a retailer who purchases their inventory for resale when a company is budgeting inventory needs they're needing to budget how much they plan to purchase however they don't want to have just enough inventory in hand only to meet their budgeted level of sales for the upcoming period they also want to have some additional inventory on hand thus they need to not only budget for the sale needs but also budget additional inventory to have a little bit of extra available in case sales exceed exceed expectations so here is the basic formula the inventory that ABC will need to plan to purchase is going to be the amount of inventory that they want to have on hand at the end of the month how much they budget to sell for each month and then they can back out or subtract out the amount of inventory they are beginning with for example ABC company buys units for $60 each and maintains an ending inventory equal to 90% of the next month's budgeted sales they are starting the month ending September beginning October with nine units on hand so let's prepare the purchases budget for ABC so here we see that for ABC they are anticipating the next month sales of 800 units in other words for October they want to have 90% of November sales on hand so we need to take November's budgeted sales times what percentage of the next month sales they want on hand at the end of October so they need to have 720 units on hand at the end of October if we add in the amount of sales expected for October a thousand units the total units needing in October are 1007 20 we subtract out the number of units they're going to begin with in October which would be September's ending inventory to get the number of units they need to budget to purchase in October they anticipate $60 of a purchase price per unit so they're budgeting total dollar amount for their October purchases of forty nine thousand two hundred now we can budget for November's purchases remember at the end of November they want to have 90 percent of the next month's sales on hand so if they anticipate 1400 units and sales in December they want 90 percent of those or 1260 units on hand at the end of November plus they're anticipating selling 800 units in November so they need a total of two thousand sixty units available they are beginning November with 720 units which is the amount of units they are expecting to have at the end of the prior month last month's Andy becomes this month beginning thus if we take the amount of units needed - what they are beginning with in November we have the number of units that need to be purchased during November at a cost of $60 apiece they need to budget for eighty thousand four hundred dollars worth of purchases we proceed the same way through December 9 hundred units are going to be needed in January 90% of those they want to have on hand at the end of December plus December sales total inventory needs for December less the number of units their starting December with which is November's ending inventory budgeted their budgeting to need to purchase nine hundred and fifty units to meet all of December's inventory needs at sixty dollars per unit total purchases of $7,000 thus we now have the amount of inventory that they need to budget to purchase each month for that last quarter of 2019 so we have the sales budget prepared we have the merchandise purchases budget prepared now we can prepare the last part of the operational budget which is to go ahead and plan for all the additional costs that will be incurred for selling general and administrative expenses for their selling expenses it's very simplified form here here is a selling expense budget let's assume that the only selling cost that this ABC company will incur are a sales commission they paid to their sales staff plus the sales manager salary so we have our budgeted sales which comes from the sales budget they pay a 10% commission to all of their sales staff or sales me so they need to budget to pay $10,000 in October 8,000 in November and 14,000 in December for their sale commission costs in addition to that they have a $2,000 that on a manager salary thus they now have total selling cost budgeted of twelve thousand ten thousand and sixteen thousand for those the last three months of 2019 again this is simplified and most companies will have a lot more selling expenses or what we're seeing here but the preparation of the selling expense budget would remain the same finally we would also have to prepare a general and administrative expense budget for that quarter which budgets the cost that they will incur beyond the merchandise purchases beyond their selling expenses all of their general and admin costs very simplified here we have a vc only budgets for administrative salaries of 4,500 dollars per month and equipment depreciation of hundred dollars per month what we have done is we have completed the operational budgets starting with the sales budget we're able to plan merchandise purchases then plan for selling expenses and finally preparing a budget for general and administrative expenses that wraps up the operational budgets portion of the master budget process