The management of Zigby Manufacturing prepared the following balance sheet for March $31.$

To prepare a master budget for April, May, and June, management gathers the following information.

a$.$ Sales for March total $82,000$ units. Budgeted sales in units follow: April, $82,000$; May, $78,000$; June, $80,000$; and July, $82,000.$ The product's selling price is $$24\mathrm{.}00$ per unit and its total product cost is $$19\mathrm{.}85$ per unit.

b$.$ Raw materials inventory consists solely of direct materials that cost $$20$ per pound. Company policy calls for a given month's ending materials inventory to equal $50\%$ of the next month's direct materials requirements. The March $31$ raw materials inventory is $19,700$ pounds. The budgeted June $30$ ending raw materials inventory is $16,000$ pounds. Each finished unit requires $0\mathrm{.}50$ pound of direct materials.

c$.$ Company policy calls for a given month's ending finished goods inventory to equal $80\%$ of the next month's budgeted unit sales.