Direct material purchases and budgeted payments Campbell Manufacturing intends to start business on January 1. Production plans for the first four months of operations are as follows:

January	16,000	units
February	40,000	units
March	56,000	units
April	56,000	units

Each unit requires two pounds of material. The firm would like to end each month with enough raw material to cover 25 percent of the following months production needs. Raw material costs $7 per pound. Management pays for 40 percent of purchases in the month of purchase and receives a 10 percent discount for these payments. The remaining purchases are paid in the following month, with no discount available. a. Prepare a purchases budget for the first quarter of the year in units, in total, and in dollars. Note: Do not use a negative sign with your answers.

	January	February	March	Quarter
Units produced
Pounds per unit	x 2	x 2	x 2	x 2
Pounds needed
EI in pounds
Total required
Less BI
Pounds to purchase
Cost per pound	x $7	x $7	x $7	x $7
Total cost of RM

b. Determine the budgeted payments for purchases of raw material for each of the first three months of operations and for the quarter in total.

Payments
	January	February	March	Quarter
January purchases
February purchases
March purchases
Total