Comprehensive Operating Budget Budgeted Balance Sheet Slopes
Comprehensive Operating Budget Budgeted Balance Sheet Slopes
Comprehensive operating budget budgeted balance sheet. Slopes, Inc., manufactures and sells
snowboards. Slopes manufacture a single model, the Pipex. In the summer of 2009, Slopes’s
management accountant gathered the following data to prepare budgets for 2010:
Slopes’s CEO expects to sell 1,000 snowboards during 2010 at an estimated retail price of
$450 per board. Further the CEO expects 2010 beginning inventory of 100 snowboards and
would like to end 2010 with 200 snowboards in stock.
Variable manufacturing overhead is $7 per direct manufacturing labor-hour. There are also
$66,000 in fixed manufacturing overhead costs budgeted for 2010. Slopes combines both
variable and fixed manufacturing overhead into a single rate based on direct manufacturing
labor-hours. Variable marketing costs are allocated at the rate of $250 per sales visit. The
marketing plan calls for 30 sales visits during 2010. Finally, there are $30,000 in fixed non-
manufacturing costs budgeted for 2010.
Other data includes:
The inventoriable unit cost for ending finished goods inventory on December 31, 2009, is
$374.80. Assume Slopes uses a FIFO inventory method for both direct materials and finished
goods. Ignore work in process in your calculations.
Budgeted balances at December 31, 2010, in the selected accounts are: