Assessment Task 1
Manage budgets and financial plans
Big Red Bicycle Pty Ltd
Task A
Based on the master budget, there have something wrong and unclear. All the numbers are the same, evenly quarter two have more sale than other quarter, at least less 30% than quarter two. We can easy to recognize with a few changes and we can achieve a goal $1.000.000
Option 1: Sales on Q1, Q3 and Q4 less 30% than Q2. That’s mean the volume of Q2 going to increase 30% than other and the commission will increase 30% as well
Option 2: Decrease Cost of Goods Sold and Expense by 20% due to the current economic climate.
By that way we can get more revenue by produce more volume for sale and also
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Sales centre A, they had achieved great success over the last year and consistently outsells other sales centres. In fact, due to the large number of accounts managed by our sales team and larger staff, Sales centre A is expected to sell as much volume as the other two sales centres put together. That means, the expense budget for Sales centre A must be more than other, at least twice time then the other centre. Because, they need a lot of money to pay for their cost, such as Wages, telephone, office supplies, and commission. That seems not fair for Sale centre A.
Contingency plan template
Contingency Plan
Company name: Big Red Bicycle Pty Ltd
Person developing the plan: Nguyen, Hoang &Sachit Mahat
Name: Nguyen, Hoang &Sachit Mahat Position Manager of Sale Centre A
Risk identified:
Strategies/activities to minimise the risk
By when
By whom
Evaluate total expense and reduce any unnecessary expense: Wages, advertising, staff amenities…
10/01/2014
All store
Deal with supplier to reduce cost of gods sold or change to new supplier
10/01/2014
CEO Michelle Yeo
Find out and fix the problem from accounting department, change new senior accountant
02/01/2014
CEO Michelle Yeo
Prepare to negotiate necessary changes to the budget, cash flow and profit projections
5/01/2014
New senior accountant
Identify areas of the budget that are not achievable, inaccurate or unclear
1/01/2014
New senior accountant
Set a new goal
d) Break even sales change that would change the profits by the same amount as a reduction in price.
If the company decided to sell the new product at price of D.Cr. 8.20, that means the full fixed expense of 1.20 is covered and the company will make high profit. However, the selling price of D.Cr. 8.20 is very high and under this price the company will sell the new product at a lower volume than what the company planned sale volume in the budget and that will affect the company in the market as a strong competitor in the food manufacturing. According to the case, the company sales volume drop to 30 tons when the product was sold at the price of D.Cr. 8.2. Thus, my recommendation are as follows:
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* Increasing sales through higher prices and/or higher volume—at a higher rate than operating expenses
ii. If the target sales revenue is equal to or greater than RM 1500, the items sold after that will be counted with a commission of 15% from the selling price.