Determine the expected cash collections by month


Mitchell Company had the following budgeted sales for the last half of last year:


Cash Sales Credit Sales
  July $40,000        $140,000     
  August $45,000        $160,000     
  September $47,000        $120,000     
  October $52,000        $147,000     
  November $62,000        $190,000     
  December $70,000        $370,000     

The company is in the process of preparing a cash budget and must determine the expected cash collections by month. To this end, the following information has been assembled:

  Collections on credit sales:
  30% in month of sales
  35% in month of following sales
  35.0% in second month following sales

Assume that the accounts receivable balance on July 1 was $87,000. Of this amount, $70,000 represented uncollected June sales and $17,000 represented uncollected May sales. Given these data, the total cash collected during July would be?

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