roduction Budget and Direct Materials Purchases Budgets

Peanut Land Inc. produces all-natural organic peanut butter. The peanut butter is sold in 12-ounce jars. The sales budget for the first four months of the year is as follows:

Company policy requires that ending inventories for each month be 15% of next month's sales. At the beginning of January, the inventory of peanut butter is 38,000 jars.

Each jar of peanut butter needs two raw materials: 24 ounces of peanuts and one jar. Company policy requires that ending inventories of raw materials for each month be 20% of the next month's production needs. That policy was met on January 1.

Required:

1. Prepare a production budget for the first quarter of the year. Show the number of jars that should be produced each month as well as for the quarter in total.

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The production budget is in units. Fill in the units for sales from the amounts provided. The desired ending inventory is added to the number of units to be produced and is calculated based on future sales. Beginning inventory is subtracted to determine units to be produced. Beginning inventory is given for the first month and is carried forward from the previous month for later months.

Review the "How to Prepare a Production Budget" example in the text.

2. Prepare a direct materials purchases budget for jars for the months of January and February.

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Fill in the units produced from Requirement 1.

Production in units x Materials per unit = Direct Materials Needed for Production

The desired ending inventory for materials is added to the materials to be purchased and is calculated based on future production. Note that the percentage of desired materials inventory does not match the percentage of desired completed inventory. Beginning inventory is calculated from current month production for the first month and is carried forward from the previous month for later months.

Direct Materials Needed for Production + Direct Materials in Desired Ending Inventory – Direct Materials in Beginning Inventory = Purchases

Review the "How to Prepare a Direct Materials Purchases Budget" example in the text.

Prepare a direct materials purchases budget for peanuts for the months of January and February.

77.6%

28.7%

17.0%

30.9%

The December 31, 2021, adjusted trial balance for Fightin' Blue Hens Corporation is presented below.
  

3. Prepare a classified balance sheet as of December 31, 2021. (Amounts to be deducted should be indicated by a minus sign.)
  

Using the list of accounts below, construct a chart of accounts for a merchandising business that rents out a portion of its building, and assign account numbers and arranging the accounts in balance sheet and income statement order (“1” for assets, and so on). Each account number should have three digits. Contra accounts should be designated with a decimal of the account (100.1 for contra of account 100). Assets and liabilities should be in order of liquidity, expenses should be in alphabetical order.

Acc. No Description

Smith Inc. engaged in the following transactions in 2019.

Smith Inc. Journal General – External Transactions                                             

Please explain the answer step by step:

Computing Average Unit Costs
The total monthly operating costs of Chili To Go are:

$8,000+ $0.30X

where

X = servings of chili

(a) Determine the average cost per serving at each of the following monthly volumes: 100; 1,000; 5,000; and 10,000.

Round answers to one decimal place.

(b) Determine the monthly volume at which the average cost per serving is $0.70.
Answer servings of chili

PLEASE EXPLAIN THE ANSWER STEP BY STEP

Automatic versus Manual Processing
Photo Station Company operates a printing service for customers with digital cameras. The current service, which requires employees to download photos from customer cameras, has monthly operating costs of $5,000 plus $0.20 per photo printed. Management is evaluating the desirability of acquiring a machine that will allow customers to download and make prints without employee assistance. If the machine is acquired, the monthly fixed costs will increase to $10,000 and the variable costs of printing a photo will decline to $0.04 per photo.

(a) Determine the total costs of printing 20,000 and 50,000 photos per month.

(b) Determine the monthly volume at which the proposed process becomes preferable to the current process.
Answer

units

Lynda Corporation manufactures two typed of glass sheets: clear glass and colored glass. Department 1 produces clear glass sheets, some of which we sold as finished goods. Others are transferred to Department 2, which adds additional materials to the clear glass sheets to form colored glass sheets, which are sold and finished product. The company something something operation something systems.

During the period, 2 jobs, were completed. Job Alpha was for 10,000 clear glass sheets and required in $200,000 materials. Job Beta was for 5,000 colored sheets and called for materials of $100,000 in department 1 and additional materials of $40,000 in Department 2.

The company strictly adhered to a Just-In-Time (JIT) inventory system for work in process

Conversion costs for the period were as follows:

Department 1              $180,000

Department 2              $50,000

Calculate the cost per unit transferred to finished goods inventory for each job, Alpha and Beta

$_____________   $______________

Alpha                          Beta

Job Beta is being sold to the government on a cost-plus basis. The vice president of marketing suggests that the conversion costs from Department #1 could be allocated on the basis of materials costs, so that he can offer a lower price for Job Alpha.

What do you think of this idea? Does it sound right? Are there any other issues here? Would you advise the company to do this? Explain.

Please show all work!!

The variable costing concept removes fixed costs, which are uncontrollable, from the decision-making process (see variable costing income statement). This forces management to focus on the variable factors of production, sales revenue and variable costs. I remember learning this concept in economics at LBCC, where a company should shut down if a product’s price falls below variable cost and just incur fixed costs.

Have you ever heard the saying “The company loses $1.00 on every unit sold, but we are confident the losses can be made up on volume.” Really?

In theory, companies should not operate with a negative contribution margin (sales revenue-variable costs), but my guess is that some do especially in this economic environment?

Do you think companies actually operate (or produce products) with a negative contribution margin?

1. Consider the audit risk model and its effect on the amount of evidence examined by the auditor.
   1. Describe each of the four risks in the model and indicate how it is related to the amount of evidence (directly or inversely)
   2. Describe how that business risk maybe factored into acceptable audit risk.
   3. How is risk of material misstatement calculated? Would the auditor rather see a higher or lower value?
   4. Can the risks be calculated precisely? Why or why not?

At what levels are unemployment liabilities incurred? What are some additional employer-borne liabilities that exist with having employees?

1. Discuss internal audit’s role for detecting and preventing corrupt practices within an organization, as well as the importance of ensuring that management has effective systems in place to detect and prevent corrupt practices.

Johnson Company leases computer equipment to customers under sales-type leases. The equipment has no residual value at the end of the lease and the leases do not contain purchase options. Johnson desires a return of 8% interest on a five-year lease of equipment with a fair value of $970,425.

(The present value of an annuity due of $1 at 8% for five years is 4.313.) OR

(Hint: Change the calculator setting to BGN for the annuity due.)

What is the annual lease payment?

)What is the total amount of interest revenue that Johnson will earn over the life of the lease?