c. Budgeted cash payments include:
i. Budgeted cash payments from selling expense budget and general and administrative
expense budget.
d. Loan Activity: if company has agreement with bank to keep a minimum cash balance,
company will need to borrow if preliminary balance is less than this minimum amount.
They will need to repay any loan balance when preliminary balance is greater than the
minimum amount.
2. Budgeted Income Statement
a. Managerial accounting report showing predicted amounts of sales and expenses.
3. Budgeted Balance Sheet
a. Final step in preparing master budget.
1. Planning: the master budget is clearly a plan for future activities
Controlling: managers typically compare actual results to budgeted results. The differences
are called variances. They examine theses variances, especially the large ones, to identify
areas for improvement and take corrective action.
III. Budgeting for Service Companies – service providers also use master budgets. Master budgets for
service provider includes:
A. Sales, Direct Labor, Factory Overhead, Capital expenditures, Cash, and Selling and general and
administrative expenses.