Part - 1

Required

a) Calculate the budgeted profit after specific fixed costs, for year 1 of the re-cover operation, assuming demand can be met in full.

b) Calculate the sales mix that will maximise budgeted profit for year 1 of the re-cover operation based on the limited availability of labour.

c) Suggest two actions that the company could take to overcome the shortage of labour.

d) Calculate the payback period for the re-cover project.

e) Calculate the net present value for the re-cover project.

Part - 2

The Kalgan Driftwood Company has decided to that it needs to use the budgeting process much more substantially to manage its activities. You are a graduate trainee who has just started work in the accounting department of Kalgan. In your degree studies, you completed a module called Managerial Finance and learned that budgets serve a number of useful purposes including:

a) Planning annual operations;
b) Coordinating the activities of the various parts of the organisation;
c) Communicating plans to the various responsibility centre managers;
d) Motivating managers to strive to achieve the organisational goals;
e) Controlling activities;
f) Evaluating the performance of managers

You are asked to select four of these purposes and explain in a presentation to your Kalgan work colleagues about how budgets achieve these aims. Write notes that will form the basis of your presentation.

NOTE: that the marks are shown as indications of the relative importance of each section and should not be taken as a precise indication of the marking scheme.