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Financial Planning Process, Formula and Format for Preparation of Budgets and Projected
Financial Statements
For corporations, long term and short-term objectives are usually identified. These can be
seen in the company’s vision and mission statements. The vision statement states where the
company wants to be while the mission statement states the plans on how to achieve the vision.
Vision: To excel in providing great tasting food that meets local preferences better than
anyone; To become one of the three largestand most profitable restaurant companies in the world
by 2020.
Mission: To serve great tasting food, bringing the joy of eating to everyone.
McDonalds Philippines
Vision: First to respond to the fast changing needs of the Filipino family; First choice when
it comes to food and dining experience; First mention as the ideal employer and socially responsible
company; First to respond to the changing lifestyle of the Filipino family
Mission: To serve the Filipino community by providing great-tasting food and the most
relevant customer delight experience.
2) Identify Resources
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•PHP 300,000
• Man power
Resources include production capacity, human resources who will man the operations and financial
resources (Borja & Cayanan, 2015).
Example: The goal-related task is to prepare an event to increase awareness of (whatever issue you
want).
Also, there must be a timeline for the activities, especially since they were allotted a specific time to
do the activity.
For corporations, the management must establish a mechanism which will allow plans to be
monitored. This can be done through quantified plans such as budgets and projected financial
statements. The management will then compare the actual results to the planned budgets and
projected financial statements. Any deviations from the budgets should be investigated.
ACTIVITY 2: Formula and Format for Preparation of Budgets and Projected Financial
Statements
Budgeting
Budgeting is the act of estimating revenue and expenses over a period of time. It involves
preparing a plan on how to allocate resources in accomplishing organizational goals. A quantified
plan is represented through budgets and projected or pro-forma financial statements.
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A plan is useless if it is not quantified (quantified means to measure the amount or size and
express it as a number). A quantified plan is represented through budgets and projected or pro-
forma financial statements. These budgets and pro-forma financial statements are useful for
controlling and serve as the bases for monitoring actual performance/s.
Meeting the plans is good. However, failing to meet the plans is not equivalent to failure if
the reasons for not meeting such plans can be justified especially when the reasons are fortuitous
in nature and are beyond the control of management.
Measuring actual performance vis a vis the plans even at the early start of the year allows the
management to assess the company’s performance and come up with remedial actions if warranted
(Cayanan, 2015).
1. Sales Budget.
The most important account in the financial statement in making a forecast is sales since most
of the expenses are correlated with sales.
In preparing a sales forecast, the following external and internal factors should be considered:
Source: Teaching Guide for Senior High School, Business Finance. Published by CHED K-12, 2016
When forecasting the sales budget, both the internal and external factors must be considered.
Let us try to analyze the following considerations:
a. A low GDP rate (external) coupled by a high inflation rate will mean that consumers are
likely to purchase less. It means that we cannot set a high forecast of sales during the periods of
low GDP rate.
b. Development in the Industry (external) also affects sales forecast, for example, the
products and services which have more development in its industry will likely have a higher sale
forecast as compared with the slower development industry.
c. Competition (external) must also be considered, if your business is the only store offering
a certain product or service, your sales forecast can be higher as compared to a business that has
5 or more competitors. But customers preferences must be taken into consideration as well, because
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even if your business is the sole producer of a certain product or service, but is not within your
target customers preference, your sales will be affected.
d. The production capacity and manpower (internal) must also be considered in preparing
sales forecast. For example, the business has a high demand of sales, but the production capacity
fails to meet such demand, there can be an opportunity cost for the forgone sales (opportunity cost
is when customers want to buy but there are no available products/services). Management may
either choose to increase capacity, by expanding their operations wherein they may hire more
employees to meet the demand. Another scenario will be, if they produced more units than the sales
demand, the unnecessarily increase in production capacity may end up with more inventories that
are not easily converted to cash, that will be affecting the working capital of the business.
Sample Computation:
XYZ company is expecting to sell 2,700 units of goods in November at a selling price of P65.
Compute for the Sales budget.
2. Production Budget
A production budget provides information regarding the number of units that should be
produced over a given accounting period based on expected sales and targeted level of ending
inventories.
XZC Company forecasts its sales in units for January to May as follows:
Jan Feb Mar Apr May
Units 2,000 2,200 2,500 2,800 3,000
• XZC company would like to maintain 100 units in its ending inventory at the end of each
month.
• Beginning inventory at the start of January amounts to 50 units.
• How many units should a company produce to fulfill the expected sales of the company?
Solution:
For the Month of January
**the ending inventory for the month of January will be the beginning inventory for February.
MONTH
Jan Feb Mar Apr May
Projected Sales 2,000 2,200 2,500 2,800 3,000
Add: Target Ending inventories 100 100 100 100 100
Total Production Required 2100 2,300 2,600 2,900 3,100
Less: Beginning Inventories (50) (100) (100) (100) (100)
Required Production Units 2,050 2,200 2,500 2,800 3,000
3. Operating Budget
Operating budget refers to the variable and fixed costs and revenue generated that are needed
to run the operations of the company. Examples of this may include rent payments, wages and
salaries of personnel, travel and representation expenses, tax payments etc.
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Sample Computation:
Solution:
Operating Budget
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4. Cash Budget
The cash budget, or cash forecast, is a statement of the firm’s planned inflows and outflows of
cash. It is used by the firm to estimate its short-term cash requirements, with particular attention
being paid to planning for surplus cash and for cash shortages (Gitman & Zutter, 2012).
ABM Company
Cash Budget
Month Ended October 31, 202X
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Projected Income Statement Format
Net Sales xx
Less: Cost of Sales (xx)
Gross Profit xx
Less: Operating Expenses (xx)
Operating Income xx
Less: Interest Expense (xx)
Income before Taxes xx
Less: Taxes (xx)
Net Income Pxx
Assets
Current Assets
Cash xx
Accounts Receivable xx
Inventory xx
Non-Current Assets
Building xx
Equipment xx
Total Assets Pxx
Capital xx
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Sample Computation:
GHI Company
Statement of Financial Position
September 30
Assets
Cash P25,000
Accounts Receivable 157,000
Inventory 25,000
Building, net of depreciation 280,000
Total Assets P487,000
GHI Company has the following data for the October budget:
a. A 2,000 units with a unit selling price of P140 is expected to be sold. Of these sales, P110,000
will be sold in cash and the rest will be receivables. 60% of the receivables will be collected
on the month the sales occur and the remaining amount will be collected on the following
month. The outstanding receivables from previous month are to be collected in October.
b. P95,000 worth of Inventories is expected to be purchased on account for the month of
October. Cash payment of 35% will be paid for all Purchased Inventories on the same month
of purchase, and the remaining amount payable for the next month. All previous month’s
accounts payable will be paid for the month of October.
c. 70% of the outstanding notes payable will be paid in October, and the interest for the notes
payable with the amount of P600 will be paid in cash.
d. Depreciation expense of P3,450 will be forecasted for the month of
October. Total of P73,000 of Operating expenses will be expected for the month of October
excluding depreciation.
e. An ending inventory balance of P55,000 is budgeted in October.
f. A computer equipment is expected to be purchased in October with the amount of P22,000.
GHI Company
Budgeted Income Statement
For the Month of October
Note 1
Sales Unit 2,000
x Unit Selling Price P140
Total Sales P280,000*
Note 2
Operating Expenses
Operating Expense P73,000
Depreciation Expense 3,450
Total Operating Expense P 76,450
GHI Company
Cash Budget
For the Month of October
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Cash Flow from Investing Activities
Purchase of Equipment (P22,000)
Net Cash Flows from Operating Activities (P22,000)
Note 3
Collection of Accounts Receivables
Sept collection of A/R 157,000
October Collection
[(P280,000*-110,000) x 60%] 102,000
Total Cash Receipts P259,000
Note 4
Purchase of Inventory
September Purchases P97,000
October Purchases (P95,000x35%) 33,250
Total Purchases P130,250
Note 5
Payments of Borrowings
(P26,000x70%) P18,200
Interest 600
Total Financing P18,800
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3. Budgeted Statement of Financial Position as of October 31
GHI Company
Budgeted Statement of Financial Position
October 31
Assets
Cash P149,950
Accounts Receivable (P170,000x40%) 68,000
Inventory 55,000
Building P280,000
Less: Accumulated Deprn’ – Bldg. (3,450) 276, 550
Computer Equipment 22,000
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