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MCO Leather manufactures leather purses. Each purse requires 2 pounds of direct materials at a cost of $3 per pound and 0.7 direct labor hours at a rate of $16 per hour. Variable manufacturing overhead is charged at a rate of $3 per direct labor hour. Fixed manufacturing overhead is $18,000 per month. The company’s policy is to end each month with direct materials inventory equal to 30% of the next month’s materials requirement. At the end of August the company had 3,280 pounds of direct materials in inventory. The company’s production budget reports the following.
Production Budget | September | October | November | |||
Units to be produced | 5,500 | 6,500 | 6,300 | |||
(1) Prepare direct materials budgets for September and
October.
(2) Prepare direct labor budgets for September and
October.
(3) Prepare factory overhead budgets for September
and October.