Question-3 Revenues and production budget. Saphire, Inc., bottles and distributes mineral water from the company's natural springs in northern Oregon. Saphire markets two products: 12-ounce disposable plastic bottles and 1-gallon reusable plastic containers. Required: 1. For 2018, Saphire marketing managers project monthly sales of 500,000 12-ounce bottles and 130,000 1-gallon containers. Average selling prices are estimated at $0.30 per 12-ounce bottle and $1.60 per 1-gallon container. Prepare a revenues budget for Saphire, Inc., for the year ending December 31, 2018. 2. Saphire begins 2018 with 980,000 12-ounce bottles in inventory. The vice president of operations requests that 12-ounce bottles ending inventory on December 31, 2018, be no less than 660,000 bottles. Based on sales projections as budgeted previously, what is the minimum number of 12-ounce bottles Saphire must produce during 2018? 3. The VP of operations requests that ending inventory of 1-gallon containers on December 31, 2018, be 300,000 units. If the production budget calls for Saphire to produce 1,200,000 1-gallon containers during 2018, what is the beginning inventory of 1-gallon containers on January 1, 2018? Question-4 Variable and absorption costing, explaining operating-income differences. Nascar Motors assembles and sells motor vehicles and uses standard costing. Actual data relating to April and May 2017 are as follows: Formulas Data B April Review D May Home Insert Page Layout 1 2 Unit data: 3 Beginning inventory 4 Production 5 Sales 6 Variable costs: 7 Manufacturing cost per unit produced 8 Operating (marketing) cost per unit sold 9 Fixed costs: 10 Manufacturing costs 11 Operating (marketing) costs 0 500 350 150 400 520 IS 10,000 3,000 10,000 3,000 $2,000,000 600,000 $2,000,000 600,000 The selling price per vehicle is $24,000. The budgeted level of production used to calculate the budgeted fixed manufacturing cost per unit is 500 units. There are no price, efficiency, or spending variances. Any production-volume variance is written off to cost of goods sold in the month in which it occurs. Required: 1. Prepare April and May 2017 income statements for Nascar Motors under (a) variable costing and (b) absorption costing. 2. Prepare a numerical reconciliation and explanation of the difference between operating income for each month under variable costing and absorption costing