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Aztec Company sells its product for $160 per unit. Its actual and budgeted sales follow.

	May (Actual)	June (Budget)	July (Budget)	August (Budget)
Sales units	2,800	5,000	4,000	3,900
Sales dollars	$ 448,000	$ 800,000	$ 640,000	$ 624,000

All sales are on credit. Collections are as follows: 24% is collected in the month of the sale, and the remaining 76% is collected in the month following the sale. Merchandise purchases cost $110 per unit. For those purchases, 60% is paid in the month of purchase and the other 40% is paid in the month following purchase. The company has a policy to maintain an ending monthly inventory of 24% of the next months unit sales. The May 31 actual inventory level of 1,200 units is consistent with this policy. Selling and administrative expenses of $144,000 per month are paid in cash. The companys minimum cash balance at month-end is $110,000. Loans are obtained at the end of any month when the preliminary cash balance is below $110,000. Any preliminary cash balance above $110,000 is used to repay loans at month-end. This loan has a 0.0% monthly interest rate. On May 31, the loan balance is $47,500, and the companys cash balance is $110,000. Required: 1. Prepare a schedule of cash receipts from sales for each of the months of June and July. 2. Prepare the merchandise purchases budget for June and July. 3. Prepare a schedule of cash payments for merchandise purchases for June and July. Assume Mays budgeted merchandise purchases is $366,080. 4. Prepare a cash budget for June and July, including any loan activity and interest expense. Compute the loan balance at the end of each month.

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