Xander Manufacturing Company manufactures blue rugs, using wool and dye as direct materials. One rug is budgeted to use 40 skeins of wool at a cost of $4 per skein and 0.75 gallons of dye at a cost of $8 per gallon. All other materials are indirect. At the beginning of the year Xander has an inventory of 462,000 skeins of wool at a cost of $1,062,600 and 4,200 gallons of dye at a cost of $25,200. Target ending inventory of wool and dye is zero. Xander uses the FIFO inventory cost flow method. (Click the icon to view the additional information.) There is no direct manufacturing labor cost for dyeing. Xander budgets 55 direct manufacturing labor-hours to weave a rug at a budgeted rate of $15 per hour. It budgets 0.25 machine-hours to dye each skein in the dyeing process. (Click the icon to view the budgeted overhead costs.) Read the requirements. Requirement 1. Prepare a direct material usage budget in both units and dollars. 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 Physical Units Budget Direct materials required for Blue rugs Material Wool Dye Total skeins gal 5. Calculate the budgeted cost of goods sold for blue rugs under each sales assumption. 6. Find the budgeted gross margin for blue rugs under each sales assumption. 7. What actions might you take as a manager to improve profitability if sales drop to 195,000 blue rugs? 8. How might top management at Xander use the budget developed in requirements 1-6 to better manage the company? Data table More info The following table presents the budgeted overhead costs for the dyeing and weaving cost pools: Variable costs Dyeing Weaving (based on 2,200,000 MH) (based on 12,100,000 DMLH) Xander blue rugs are very popular and demand is high, but because of capacity constraints the firm will produce only 220,000 blue rugs per year. The budgeted selling price is $2,200 each. There are no rugs in beginning inventory. Target ending inventory of rugs is also zero. Xander makes rugs by hand, but uses a machine to dye the wool. Thus, overhead costs are accumulated in two cost pools-one for weaving and the other for dyeing. Weaving overhead is allocated to products based on direct manufacturing labor-hours (DMLH). Dyeing overhead is allocated to products based on machine-hours (MH). Indirect materials $ Maintenance Utilities Fixed costs Indirect labor 0 $ 6,580,000 7,570,000 15,500,000 5,560,000 2,480,000 Print Done 367,000 1,810,000 Depreciation 2,120,000 743,000 280,000 5,830,000 a $0 balance, make sure to enter "0" in the appropriate cell.) Other bods sold budget assuming sales of 195,000 rugs. $ 17,380,000 $ 31,460,000 Total budgeted costs Print Done