Payment and receipts

Complete the Cashbook Exercise

We are learning to explain financial, economic and consumer factors influencing agribusiness decisions and how to plan sustainable and profitable farm production

• Pinpointing areas of in-efficiency and waste

• Preparing applications for loans

• Helping with taxation returns

• Planning for the future

• Monitoring progress of the property

• Planning operations on the property

• Monitoring quantity, quality, and performance

Records have many uses including:

The basis of good farm management is good records and budgets

Records must be useful, simple, and concise
The two most common types are physical and financial records

Physical records commonly used include:

• Diaries showing daily events

• Rainfall records

• Paddocks records

  • types of crops grown and fertiliser used ect

• Inventories

  • Fertilisers, seeds, machinery, herbicides, drenches, vaccines and other stock

Financial records can monitor the flow of money and assess the farms performance
Financial records commonly used include:

• Statement of assets and liabilities

• Equity or net worth

• Cash flow budgets

• Gross margins

• Parametric budgets

• Development budgets

• Whole farm budgets

• Partial budgets

Farm budgeting involves a number of steps generally starting with Cash Payments (Money Out) and Cash Receipts (Money In)

Basically, any person or business cannot be spending more that what they are bringing in, or they will become unviable.

There is some variability in this, but it generally applies

Cash payments and cash receipts

1. Rearrange the dates to put the transactions in chronological (time) order

2. How much money must be available to meet payment before receipts come in

​Cashbook Example: Sheep Farming Enterprise

Using the below information, as a class create a cashbook

• Naval Sales, $1000, 01/07/2021

• Valencia Sales, $50, 12/08/2021

• Other Citrus, $50, 29/03/2021

• Fertiliser, $200, 10/02/2021

• Fungicide, $50, 10/02/2021

• Insecticide, $50, 26/03/2021

• Irrigation, $200, 20/07/2021

Using the below information, create your own cashbook

• Egg sales, 15 cartons a week for 41 weeks, $3 a carton (Starting 01/02)

• Chicken sales, 50 birds for $10 each, 03/12

• Feed, $1000, 28/01

• Vet, $200, 16/02

• Lay hen sales, 60 birds for $20 each, 27/01

• Feed, $1000, 16/07

Using the below information, create your own cashbook

• 14/10/21 - Steer and cow sales, $2500 per head (6 head)

• 3/12/21 - Calf sales, $800 per head (5 head)

• 10/04/21 - Cull cow sales, $1200 per head (8 head)

• 23/11/21 - Abattoir sales, $1500 per head (10 head)

• 2/02/21 (start date)- Hay, $500 every 3 months until 11/21

• 2/02/21 (start date) - Grain, $500 every 3 months until 11/21

• 2/02/21 - Vet, $1500

• 2/02/21 - Transport $300