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Pet Luggage Company makes two pet carriers, the Cat-allac and the Dog-eriffic. They are both made of plastic with metal doors, but the Cat-allac is
Pet Luggage Company makes two pet carriers, the Cat-allac and the Dog-eriffic. They are both made of plastic with metal doors, but the Cat-allac is smaller. Information for the two products for the month of April is given in the following tables:
Pet Luggage uses an activity-based costing system and classifies overhead into three activity pools: Setup, Processing, and Inspection. Activity rates for these activities are
$100 per setup-hour, $5 per machine-hour, and $16 per inspection-hour, respectively. Other information follows:
Requirement 1. Prepare the revenues budget.
Revenues Budget | |||
For the Month of April | |||
| Units | Selling price | Total revenues |
Cat-allac | 500 | $215 | $107,500 |
Dog-eriffic | 215 | 320 | 68,800 |
Total |
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| $176,300 |
Part 2
Requirement 2.
Prepare
the production budget in units.
Production Budget (in Units) | |||
For the Month of April | |||
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| Cat-allac | Dog-eriffic |
Budgeted units sales | 500 | 215 | |
Add target ending finished goods inventory | 35 | 15 | |
Total required units | 535 | 230 | |
Deduct beginning finished goods inventory | 15 | 30 | |
Units of finished goods to be produced | 520 | 200 |
Part 3
Requirement 3. Prepare the direct material usage budget and direct material purchases budget.
Begin with the physical units portion, then prepare the cost budget portion of the direct material usage budget.
Direct Material Usage Budget in Quantity and Dollars | |||||
For the Month of April | |||||
Material |
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| Plastic | Metal | Total | ||
Physical Units Budget | |||||
Direct materials required for | |||||
Cat-allac | 1,560 | lbs. | 260 | lbs. | |
Dog-errific | 1,000 | lbs. | 200 | lbs. | |
Total quantity of direct material to be used | 2,560 | lbs. | 460 | lbs. |
Part 4
Cost Budget |
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Available from beginning direct materials inventory |
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(under a FIFO cost-flow assumption) |
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Plastic | 874 |
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Metal |
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To be purchased this period |
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Plastic |
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Metal |
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Direct materials to be used this period |
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Input Prices | ||
Direct materials | ||
Plastic | $4 | per pound |
Metal | $3 | per pound |
Direct manufacturing labor | $10 | per direct manufacturing labor hour |
Input Quantities per Unit of Output | ||||
| Cat-allac | Dog-eriffic | ||
Direct materials |
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Plastic | 3 | pounds | 5 | pounds |
Metal | 0.5 | pounds | 1 | pound |
Direct manufacturing labor-hours | 3 | hours | 5 | hours |
Machine-hours (MH) | 10 | MH | 18 | MH |
Inventory Information, Direct Materials | ||||
| Plastic | Metal | ||
Beginning inventory | 230 | pounds | 80 | pounds |
Target ending inventory | 370 | pounds | 70 | pounds |
Cost of beginning inventory | $874 | $240 |
Sales and Inventory Information, Finished Goods | ||
| Cat-allac | Dog-eriffic |
Expected sales in units | 500 | 215 |
Selling price | $215 | $320 |
Target ending inventory in units | 35 | 15 |
Beginning inventory in units | 15 | 30 |
Beginning inventory in dollars | $1,500 | $5,580 |
Pet Luggage uses a FIFO cost-flow assumption for finished-goods inventory.
Cost Driver Information | ||||
| Cat-allac | Dog-errific | ||
Number of units per batch | 20 | 8 | ||
Setup time per batch | 1.50 | hours | 2.00 | hours |
Inspection time per batch | 0.5 | hours | 0.6 | hour |
If necessary, round up to calculate number of batches. Operating (nonmanufacturing) fixed costs for March equal
$38,000, half of which are salaries. Salaries are expected to increase
5% in April. Other operating fixed costs will remain the same. The only variable operating cost is sales commission, equal to 1% of sales revenue.Dialog content ends
Prepare the following for April:
1. | Revenues budget | |
2. | Production budget in units | |
3. | Direct material usage budget and direct material purchases budget | |
4. | Direct manufacturing labor cost budget | |
5. | Manufacturing overhead cost budgets for each of the three activities | |
6. | Budgeted unit cost of ending finished goods inventory and ending inventories budget | |
7. | Cost of goods sold budget | |
8. | Operating (nonmanufacturing) costs budget | |
9. | Budgeted income statement (ignore income taxes) | |
10. | How does preparing the budget help Pet Luggage's management team better manage the company? |
Please help me compute the cost budget?
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