1. Exercise 7-3 Direct Materials Budget [LO7-4]

Three 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 $1.50 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	60,000	90,000	150,000	100,000		70,000

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 36,000 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.)

Question 2.

Exercise 7-4 Direct Labor Budget [LO7-5]

The production manager of Rordan Corporation has submitted the following forecast of units to be produced by quarter for the upcoming fiscal year:

	1st Quarter	2nd Quarter	3rd Quarter	4th Quarter
Units to be produced	12,000	9,000	7,200	11,300

Each unit requires 0.65 direct labor-hours, and direct laborers are paid $20.00 per hour.

Required:
1.	Complete the companys direct labor budget for the upcoming fiscal year, assuming that the direct labor workforce is adjusted each quarter to match the number of hours required to produce the forecasted number of units produced. (Round "Direct labor time per unit (hours)" answers to 2 decimal places.)

2.

Complete the companys direct labor budget for the upcoming fiscal year, assuming that the direct labor workforce is not adjusted each quarter. Instead, assume that the companys direct labor workforce consists of permanent employees who are guaranteed to be paid for at least 7,000 hours of work each quarter. If the number of required direct labor-hours is less than this number, the workers are paid for 7,000 hours anyway. Any hours worked in excess of 7,000 hours in a quarter are paid at the rate of 1.5 times the normal hourly rate for direct labor. (Input all amounts as positive values.)