P8–5 Production and purchases budgets Time allowed: 40 minutes Pearl Products Limited of Shenzhen, China, manufactures and distributes toys throughout South East Asia. Three cubic centimetres (cc) of solvent H300 are required to manufacture each unit of Supermix, one of the company’s products. The company is now planning raw materials needs for the third quarter, the quarter in which peak sales of Supermix occur. To keep production and sales moving smoothly, the company has the following stock requirements:

1 The finished goods stock on hand at the end of each month must be equal to 3,000 units of Supermix plus 20% of the next month’s sales. The finished goods stock on 30 June is budgeted to be 10,000 units.

2 The raw materials stock on hand at the end of each month must be equal to one-half of the following month’s production needs for raw materials. The raw materials stock on 30 June is budgeted to be 54,000 cc of solvent H300.

3 The company maintains no work in progress stocks.

A sales budget for Supermix for the last six months of the year follows.

Required 1 Prepare a production budget for Supermix for the months July–October.
2 Examine the production budget that you prepared in Question 1 above.
Why will the company produce more units than it sells in July and August, and fewer units than it sells in September and October?
3 Prepare a budget showing the quantity of solvent H300 to be purchased for July, August and September, and for the quarter in total.

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Budgeted sales in units July 35,000 August 40,000 September 50,000 October 30,000 November 20,000 December 10,000