Direct Materials Purchases Budget

Langer Company produces plastic items, induding plastic housings for humidifiers. Each housing requires about $17$ ounces of plastic costing $$0\mathrm{.}12$ per ounce. Langer molds the plastic into the proper shape. Langer has budgeted production of the housings for the next $4$ months as follows:

$\backslash$table$[[,$Units$],[$July$,3,500],[$August$,4,400],[$September$,4,900],[$October$,6,300]]$

Inventory policy requires that sufficient plastic be in ending monthly inventory to satisfy $30\%$ of the following month's production needs. The inventory of plastic at the begining of July equals exactly the amount needed to satisfy the inventory policy.

Requlred:

Prepare a direct materials purchases budget for July, August, and September; showing purchases in units and in dollars for each month and in total, If required, round the total punchase cost to nearest whole value.