Question

Cook Farm Supply Company manufactures and sells a pesticide called Snare. The following data are available for preparing budgets for Snare for the first 2 quarters of 2017.

1.		Sales: quarter 1, 28,400 bags; quarter 2, 44,000 bags. Selling price is $62 per bag.
2.		Direct materials: each bag of Snare requires 4 pounds of Gumm at a cost of $3.8 per pound and 6 pounds of Tarr at $1.50 per pound.
3.		Desired inventory levels:

Type of Inventory		January 1		April 1		July 1
Snare (bags)		8,100		12,500		18,300
Gumm (pounds)		9,100		10,400		13,100
Tarr (pounds)		14,300		20,200		25,400

4.		Direct labor: direct labor time is 15 minutes per bag at an hourly rate of $14 per hour.
5.		Selling and administrative expenses are expected to be 15% of sales plus $180,000 per quarter.
6.		Interest expense is $100,000.
7.		Income taxes are expected to be 30% of income before income taxes.

Your assistant has prepared two budgets: (1) the manufacturing overhead budget shows expected costs to be 125% of direct labor cost, and (2) the direct materials budget for Tarr shows the cost of Tarr purchases to be $301,000 in quarter 1 and $427,500 in quarter 2.

Requirements

Prepare a sales Budget, production budget, direct material budget, direct labor budget, manufacturing overhead budget, selling and administrative budget, and income statement budget for the 2 quarters of 2017.

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