In: Accounting
Electro Company manufactures an innovative automobile
transmission for electric cars. Management predicts that ending
finished goods inventory for the first quarter will be 44,400
units. The following unit sales of the transmissions are expected
during the rest of the year: second quarter, 222,000 units; third
quarter, 284,000 units; and fourth quarter, 461,500 units. Company
policy calls for the ending finished goods inventory of a quarter
to equal 20% of the next quarter's budgeted sales.
Prepare a production budget for both the second and third quarters
that shows the number of transmissions to manufacture.