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Endeavour Twoplise LTD
Endeavour Twoplise LTD
long-standing friends, Endeavour backed Sam on that occasion and no changes were made. Toby is still working for the company, but this incident has made him rather frustrated. The only other full time employee is Andy Bucket, an accounts assistant, who was employed six months ago, because of Endeavour's deteriorating health, to take some of the workload from his shoulders. The company has an overdraft facility to support its cashflow requirements. Brenda has negotiated a 30,000 overdraft facility to be available to the company when she takes over as owner. The Company's Systems Andy is quite a bright young man and is keen to use his initiative. He has a friend who, until recently, was studying accounting on a day-release basis at the local college and this friend recommended to Andy that it would be helpful if the company set up a budgeting system. During the six months in which Andy has been with the company, he has managed to construct a budget for the period to 30th June, 2000, with advice from his friend and information from Endeavour and the company records. Unfortunately, shortly after the budget was completed, Andy's friend decided to change jobs. He moved out of the area and so Andy no longer has his advice to guide him. Consequently, although the budget has been constructed, nothing has been done with it. The budget identified the levels of production required each month to meet expected demand. The current state of affairs is that production tends to jog along at a steady rate regardless of demand and, in addition, purchases of raw materials tend to be on a 'hit and miss' basis. It is mainly by good luck rather than good management that sufficient raw materials are available. In Endeavour's opinion, if he can see the men working diligently in the factory, he is satisfied that the business is doing okay and so far he has managed to negotiate additional overdraft facilities whenever the company has been short of cash. However, the bank has said that any further borrowing by Endeavour would have to be supported by budgets and monitoring information. The Future Based on her analysis, Brenda is optimistic about the company's prospects. She feels that the long awaited upturn in the construction industry is imminent and that demand for the product will increase considerably in the medium to long term. She has thus agreed to buy the business and take over its management in June 2000. She has already looked carefully at the budget which Andy has produced and is fairly confident that the budgeted balance is a reasonable assessment of the company's assets and liabilities as at 30th June 2000 (see Appendix 1). Brenda has considerable experience of accounting, having worked for a number of years in this field, and has been able to build upon Andy's efforts. Together they have set about the task of gathering information which will be useful in the planning of the final four months' trading up to 31st October 2000. The results of their labours are as follows: Estimated Production Data Estimated selling price per cog mechanism Estimated materials usage per cog mechanism Estimated cost of materials per kilo Estimated production wages and variable overheads per cog mechanism Estimated fixed overheads per month 250 one kilogram 45 65 3000
July Estimated sales of cog mechanisms Estimated production of cog mechanisms 110 100
Oct 80 70
100
110
100
60
Purchase of New Equipment Brenda has decided that the new equipment will be delivered in July and paid for in August. She has made arrangements for the company to issue 10% debentures to the value of 130,000 to be repaid in the year 2007. Interest on the debentures will be paid by two six-monthly instalments, in arrears. 130,000 will be credited to the company's bank account on 1st August 2000. Depreciation July to October Buildings Machinery Vehicles 333 15,200 (includes depreciation on new equipment) 5,400
Credit terms All sales are on credit and two months' credit is allowed. All purchases of raw materials are on credit and are paid for one month following purchase. Wages, variable and fixed overheads are paid in the month in which they are incurred.
Proposed Dividend Since Brenda will make a considerable investment in purchasing the business, she intends to propose a dividend of 5% in October 2000.
APPENDIX 1
Budgeted Balance Sheet of Endeavour Twoplise Limited as at 30th June 2000 Cost Fixed Assets Land & buildings Machinery & equipment Motor vehicles 120,000 50,000 52,000 222,000 Current Assets Stock of raw materials (100 kilos) Stock of finished goods (110 cogs) Debtors (May: 5,900, June: 13,100) 4,500 12,100 19,000 35,600 Creditors (amounts due within one year) Trade creditors for raw materials Bank overdraft 3,900 17,250 20,000 44,000 16,000 80,000 100,000 6,000 36,000 142,000 Depreciation to date NBV
21,150 14,450 156,450 Capital and Reserves: Ordinary share capital (1 shares) Retained profits 100,000 56,450 156,450
Note: finished goods stocks are valued at marginal cost for budget purposes Question 1 a) From the information which Brenda and Andy have provided, calculate the closing stock of raw materials and finished goods and present the raw materials budget and the finished goods budget for each month from July 2000 to October 2000 inclusive. Your answers should be expressed in either kilograms or cogs, as appropriate. b) Calculate and present the sales revenue budget and production cost budget for each month from July 2000 to October 2000 inclusive, and identify the budgeted closing debtors, budgeted closing creditors and budgeted closing stock values at 30th June 2000. c) Prepare and present the cash budget for each month from July to October 2000 inclusive. Question 2 Brenda has decided that now the budget has been constructed, she can use it for monitoring and controlling purposes. However, she needs to explain to Andy how this can be done so that he can undertake the necessary tasks involved. Write a memo to Andy from Brenda which: a) explains how Brenda intends to use the budget to monitor and control the company's activities and identifies the tasks which Brenda might require Andy to undertake in implementing the process; b) explains how she might use a responsibility accounting approach and identifies some of the problems that she might encounter in doing so. Question 3 It is now October 2000 and Brenda, who has become more confident at planning ahead for the business, has produced a budget for the next twelve months' trading to October 2001. This highlights a period of 35 per cent spare capacity from November 2000 to January 2001 inclusive. She has established that for an extra investment of 35,000, she could buy equipment which is more flexible than the newly purchased plant, in that it can be used to produce cog mechanisms of a slightly different design, in addition to the current cog mechanism. These slightly different cog mechanisms are suitable for use in automated waste collection vehicles. Identify the types of information which Brenda would need to consider in making a decision to purchase the additional equipment, the likely sources of information and any other factors which you feel she should consider. Question 4 From the information provided by Brenda and Andy, prepare a budgeted trading and profit and loss account for the four months to 31st October 2000 and a budgeted balance sheet as at 31st October 2000. Ignore taxation.