Sales Budget

Before approaching this assignment, be sure that you have watched the following video:
 Wiley (2011, September 28). Budgetary planning featuring Babycakes *full video* [Video file].
Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frh3I2rVDzs
Babycakes, a specialty bakery, is the company that will be considered for all parts of your budget
planning and control report. For this assignment, you will develop a 3–4-page paper in which you address
the following.
1. Briefly discuss the ways a realistic budget will benefit the owner of Babycakes versus no budget at all. Be
sure to use Babycakes as the company and any specific product details in your explanation.
2. Prepare a sales budget for the LA Babycakes store for the fourth quarter of 2016. Present the number
of units, sales price, and total sales for each month; include October, November, and December,
and the total for the quarter. Use one half of the Valentine’s Day sales as the basis for a usual day in
the new quarter. Use 30 days for each month. Calculate the total sales for each month for October,
November, and December.
3. Create three new products, one for each of the three holiday seasons in the fourth quarter. Estimate the
sales units, sales price, and total sales for each month. Describe the assumptions used to make these
estimates. Include an overview of the budget in the report, presenting the actual budget as an appendix
with all the data and calculations. Add these amounts to your sales budget.
4. The owner of Babycakes is interested in preparing a flexible budget rather than the static budget she
currently uses. She does not understand why, when sales increase, her static budget often shows an
unfavorable variance. Explain how a flexible budget will overcome this problem. Use the details of your
newly prepared budget for the fourth quarter of 2016 to address her concern.
5. Imagine that Babycakes is facing a financial challenge that is causing the actual amount of money that it
spends to become significantly more than its budgeted amount. Include a discussion of your own unique
cause of the overspending. Explain the corrective actions needed to address these challenges.
6. Integrate relevant information from at least three quality academic resources in this
assignment. Note: Please do not use your textbook as an academic resource. Also, Wikipedia and other
similar websites do not qualify as quality academic resources. You have access to Strayer University’s
Online Library at https://research.strayer.edu and the iCampus University Library Research page
at https://icampus.strayer.edu/library/research.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
 Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with 1-inch margins on all sides;
references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional
instructions.
 Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the
course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page
length.
 An abstract is not required.