Question

20. A hardware store has budgeted sales of $36,000 for its power tool department in July. Management wants to have $7,000 in power tool inventory at the end of July. Its beginning inventory of power tools is expected to be $6,000. What is the budgeted dollar amount of merchandise purchases

Answer 1

$37,000

Step-by-step explanation:

The computation of the budgeted dollar amount of merchandise purchases is shown below:

As we know that

Budgeted purchase = Budgeted sales + ending inventory - beginning inventory

= $36,000 + $7,000 - $6,000

= $37,000

We simply applied the above formula so that the budgeted purchase could come by considering the all items given in the question