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FINANCIAL PLANNING
Learning objectives:
At the end of this module, students must be able to:
1. explain the nature and significance of financial planning;
2. be familiar with the basic financial forecasting model;
3. apply the projected financial approach in forecasting;
4. prepare sales budget, production budget, and cash budget.
CONTENTS:
Financial Plan – a statement of what to be done in the future as far as financial goals are concerned.
Financial Planning – the projection of financial information such as sales, income, and assets based
on available alternatives (i.e. production and marketing strategies) as well as the determination of
resources needed to achieve these projections.
b. Short-term (operating) financial plans – Specify short-term financial actions and the
anticipated impact of those actions.
2. Budget preparation
Budgeting – is the process or act of preparing financial budget.
Budget – refers to a plan which is expressed in a quantitative monetary value.
Purposes:
a) Facilitate planning
b) Establishing financial coordination
c) Proper allocation of resources
d) Improve employee morale
e) Enhancing control mechanism
Period covered:
a) Short-term – anchored on one year budgetary requirements
b) Medium-term – sets the budgetary requirements of an entity for the next three or five years.
c) Long-term – also called strategic budget which is anchored on the VMO.
Types of budget:
a) Fixed budget – based only on one level of production capacity.
b) Flexible budget – shows the projected cost at different levels of production capacity.
c) Continuous or rolling budget – continuously prepared every month by adding another
month once the current month has passed.
d) Cash budget – reflects the expected cash receipts from cash sales, collections, proceeds
from sale of other assets and borrowings, expected disbursements on payments of OPEX,
interest, taxes and loans.
e) Sales budget – reflects expected number of units to be sold based on forecast made from
performance of previous years and other marketing variables.
f) Production budget – shows the costs of producing the product which includes the direct
materials, direct labor, and factory overhead.
g) Operating budget – reflects the sales and production budgets.
h) Financial budget – usually includes the cash budget and budgeted balance sheet.
i) Capital budget – a long range budget that incorporates the major expenditures for plant
and machineries.
j) Master budget – the overall budget of the business entity.
*Note: Since budgeting is a very broad topic, we will focus only on three major types of budget, the
Sales Budget, Production Budget, and Cash Budget. Other budgets shall be discussed in higher
accounting subjects in college.
*Other format for cash budget may be used provided same concepts are applied.
Solution:
Budgeted sales ₱1,800,000
Cost of sales (35% of Sales) 630,000
Solution:
Units required for production 24,000
Add: desired ending inventory 12,000 squeeze
Total requirements 36,000
Less: Beginning inventory 28,000
Units to be purchased 8,000
Solution:
Collections:
Cash sales (₱80,000 x 60%) ₱48,000
Credit sales 9,000
Total cash collections ₱57,000
Solution:
Collections:
January sales (₱860,000 x 0.8 x 0.75) ₱516,000
December sales (January 1 Accounts) 299,000
Collection of Credit sales ₱ 815,000
Cash sales (₱860,000 x 0.2) ₱ 172,000
Total January cash collections ₱ 987,000
C. Inventory management
𝟐 𝒙 𝑨 𝒙 𝑶𝑪/𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓
Economic Order Quantity 𝑬𝑶𝑸 = √
𝑪𝑪/𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕
Where:
𝐴 = Annual usage
𝑂𝐶 = Ordering cost
𝐶𝐶 = Carrying cost
* Illustrative problems for Working Capital management will be included in a separate PowerPoint
presentation.
References:
✓ BAL 658.15 C1128, 2017. Cabrera, Ma. Elenita Balatbat and Cabrera, Gilbert Anthony B.,
Business Finance for Senior High School, GIC Enterprises
✓ BAL 658.15 G4476, 2017. Gitman, Lawrence J., et. al. Business Finance. JO-ES Publishing House,
Inc.
✓ BAL 332.4 L161, 2015. Laman, Rose Marie B. et. al. Financial System, Market & Management.
GIC Enterprises
✓ BAL 658.15 An15, 2010. Anastacio, Ma. Flordeliza, Dacanay, Roberto C. Fundamentals of
Financial Management, Rex Book Store