Direct material Budget

Refer to Exercises 7-3 and 7-4 in your textbook and answer the questions that follow. Your response should be 2 to 3 pages long, including attachments, and follow APA format.

Hospitable Co. provides the following sales forecast for the next four months:

April May June July

Sales (units). . . . . . . .500 580 540 620

The company wants to end each month with ending finished goods inventory equal to 25% of next month’s sales. Finished goods inventory on April 1 is 190 units. Assume July’s budgeted production is 540 units. Prepare a production budget for the months of April, May, and June.

Refer to the information in Exercise 7-3. In addition, each finished unit requires five pounds of raw materials and the company wants to end each month with raw materials inventory equal to 30% of next month’s production needs. Beginning raw materials inventory for April was 663 pounds. Assume direct materials cost $4 per pound. Prepare a direct materials budget for April, May, and June.

Exercise 7-4 Manufacturing: Direct materials budget P1

PS Only peer reviewed references (6) allowed, citations if used MUST match references.