Which of the following budgets is not a budget that a manufacturer would include in its master budget?

(A) sales budget

(B) direct materials budget

(C) production budget

(D) merchandise purchases budget

(E) cash budget

merchandise purchases budget

Explanation:

A product sales forecast is a business plan that records the cumulative amounts of expenses or commodity production units that a retailer is supposed to buy in a reporting year.

In other terms, this is the expenditure analysts use to prepare acquisitions in inventories for the forthcoming times. This is also the guideline which determines the sum of money which the procurement department may allocate on yearly stock purchasing.

Thus, from the above we can conclude that the correct option is D.