Roletter Company makes and sells artistic frames for pictures of weddings, graduations, and other special events. Bob Anderson, the controller, is responsible for preparing Roletter 's master budget and has accumulated the following information for 2015 :

	2015
	January	February	March	April	May
Estimated sales in units	13,000	16,000	6,000	10,000	10,000
Selling price	$58.00	$50.50	$50.50	$50.50	$50.50
Direct manufacturing labor-hours per unit	2.0	2.0	1.5	1.5	1.5
Wage per direct manufacturing labor-hour	$12.00	$12.00	$12.00	$11.00	$11.00

In addition to wages, direct manufacturing labor-related costs include pension contributions of $0.50 per hour, worker's compensation insurance of $0.15 per hour, employee medical insurance of $0.40 per hour, and Social Security taxes. Assume that as of January 1, 2015 ,the Social Security tax rates are 7.5% for employers and 7.5% for employees. The cost of employee benefits paid by Roletter on its employees is treated as a direct manufacturing labor cost.

Roletterhas a labor contract that calls for a wage increase to $ 11 per hour on April 1,2015. New labor-saving machinery has been installed and will be fully operational by March 1,2015. Roletter expects to have 19,000 frames on hand at December 31,2014,and it has a policy of carrying an end-of-month inventory of 100% of the following month's sales plus 50% of the second following month's sales.

Requirement 1. Prepare a production budget and a direct manufacturing labor budget for Roletter Company by month and for the first quarter of 2015.Y ou may combine both budgets in one schedule. The direct manufacturing labor budget should include labor-hours and show the details for each labor cost category.

Start the schedule by preparing the production budget and calculating the total hours of direct manufacturing labor time needed for the three months in the quarter, then calculate the values for the quarter. Finish by preparing the bottom portion of the schedule for the direct manufacturing labor by month, then quarter. (Enter the direct manufacturing labor-hours per unit to one decimal place, X.X. Do not round interim calculations, and then enter all amounts in the budget [other than the direct manufacturing labor-hours per unit] to the nearest whole number.)

Roletter Company
Budget for Production and Direct Manufacturing Labor
For the Quarter Ended March 31, 2015
	January	February	March
Budgeted sales (units)
Add target ending finished goods inventory (units)
Total requirements (units)
Deduct beginning finished goods inventory (units)
Units to be produced
Direct manufacturing labor-hours per unit
Total hours of direct manufacturing labor time needed