1. Down Under Products, Ltd., of Australia has budgeted sales of its popular boomerang for the next four months as follows:

	Unit Sales
April		60,000
May		80,000
June		100,000
July		85,000

The company is now in the process of preparing a production budget for the second quarter. Past experience has shown that end-of-month inventory levels must equal 20% of the following months unit sales. The inventory at the end of March was 12,000 units.

Required:

Prepare a production budget by month and in total, for the second quarter.

2. Two grams of musk oil are required for each bottle of Mink Caress, a very popular perfume made by a small company in western Siberia. The cost of the musk oil is $1.70 per gram. Budgeted production of Mink Caress is given below by quarters for Year 2 and for the first quarter of Year 3:

	Year 2					Year 3
	First	Second	Third	Fourth		First
Budgeted production, in bottles	78,000	108,000	168,000	118,000		88,000

Musk oil has become so popular as a perfume ingredient that it has become necessary to carry large inventories as a precaution against stock-outs. For this reason, the inventory of musk oil at the end of a quarter must be equal to 20% of the following quarters production needs. Some 31,200 grams of musk oil will be on hand to start the first quarter of Year 2.

Required:

Prepare a direct materials budget for musk oil, by quarter and in total, for Year 2. (Round "Unit cost of raw materials" answers to 2 decimal places.)

3. The direct labor budget of Yuvwell Corporation for the upcoming fiscal year contains the following details concerning budgeted direct labor-hours:

	1st Quarter	2nd Quarter	3rd Quarter	4th Quarter
Budgeted direct labor-hours	9,600	9,000	9,300	10,100

The company uses direct labor-hours as its overhead allocation base. The variable portion of its predetermined manufacturing overhead rate is $4.00 per direct labor-hour and its total fixed manufacturing overhead is $64,000 per quarter. The only noncash item included in fixed manufacturing overhead is depreciation, which is $16,000 per quarter.

Required:

1. Prepare the companys manufacturing overhead budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

2. Compute the companys predetermined overhead rate (including both variable and fixed manufacturing overhead) for the upcoming fiscal year.