Ornamental Sculptures Mfg$.$ manufactures garden sculptures. Each sculpture requires $7$ pounds of direct materials at a cost of $$4$ per pound and $0\mathrm{.}4$ direct labor hours at a rate of $$13$ per hour. Variable manufacturing overhead is charged at a rate of $$2$ per direct labor hour. Fixed manufacturing overhead is $$3,900$ per month. The company's policy is to maintain direct materials inventory equal to $20\%$ of the next month's materials requirement. At the end of February the company had $5,180$ pounds of direct materials in inventory. The company's production budget reports the following.

Production Budget

March

April

May

Units to be produced

$3,700$

$4,600$

$5,500$

$(1)$ Prepare direct materials budgets for March and April.

$(2)$ Prepare direct labor budgets for March and April.

$(3)$ Prepare factory overhead budgets for March and April.

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Prepare direct materials budgets for March and April.

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