EXERCISE 8-3 Direct Materials Budget LO8-4 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 pro- duction of Mink Caress is given below by quarters for Year 2 and for the first quarter of Year 3: First Second Year 2 Third Year 3 Fourth First Budgeted production, in bottles 60,000 90,000 150,000 100,000 70,000 The inventory of musk oil at the end of a quarter must be equal to 20% of the following quarter's production needs. Some 36,000 grams of musk oil will be on hand to start the first quarter of Year 2.