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Exercise 22-12 Manufacturing: Preparing production budgets (for two periods) LO P1 Electro Company manufactures an innovative automobile transmission for electric cars, Management predicts that ending finished goods inventory for the first quarter will be 29,900 units. The following unit sales of the transmissions are expected during the rest of the year second quarter, 299,000 units, third quarter , 379.000 units and fourth quarter, 373,000 units. Company policy calls for the ending finished goods inventory of a quarter to equal 10% of the next quarter's budgeted sales Prepare a production budget for both the second and third quarters that shows the number of transmissions to manufacture Third Quarter ELECTRO COMPANY Production Budget Second and Third Quarters Second Quarter Budgeted ending inventory (units) Budgeted unit sales for quarter Required units of available production Budgeted beginning inventory (units) Units to be produced