Site Search                  

Inventory Purchases Budget for a Merchandising Firm:

Learning Objectives:

1. Define and explain an inventory budget.
2. Prepare an inventory budget or merchandising purchase budget.

Manufacturing firms prepare production budget but merchandising firms prepare merchandising purchase budget instead. Merchandising purchase budget shows the amount of goods to be purchased from its suppliers during the period. The merchandising purchase budget has the same basic format as the production budget, as shown below:

Example:

You may also be interested in other articles from "Budgeting and planning" chapter:

1. Profit Planning
2. Participative or Self Imposed budgeting
3. Human Factors in Budgeting
4. Zero Based Budgeting (ZBB)
5. Budget Committee
6. Master Budget
7. Sales Budget
8. Production Budget
9. Inventory Purchases Budget for a Merchandising Firm
10. Material Budgeting | Direct Materials Budget
11. Labor Budget
12. Manufacturing Overhead Budget
13. Ending Finished Goods Inventory Budget
14. Selling and Administrative Expense Budget
15. Cash Budget
16. Budgeted Income Statement
17. Budgeted Balance Sheet
18. International Aspects of Budgeting

Back to Home Page | Back to Budgeting and Planning Page

Managerial Accounting

Financial Accounting