Xerxes Manufacturing Company manfactures blue rugs, using dyes and wools as direct materials. One rug is budgeted to use 36 skeins of wools at a cost of $2 per skeins and 0.8 gallons of dye at a cost of $6 per gallon. All other materials are indirect. At the beginning of the year Xerxes has an inventory of 458,000 skeins of wool at a cost of $961,800 and 4,000 gallons of dye at a cost of $23,680. Target ending inventory of wool and dye is zero. Xerxes uses the FIFO inventory cost flow method.

There is no direct manufacturing labor cost for dyeing. Xerxes budgets 62 direct manufacturing labor hours to weave a rug at a budgeted rate of $13 per hour. It budgets 0.2 ?machine-hours to dye each skein in the dyeing process. Xerxes blue rugs are very popular and demand is? high, but because of capacity constraints the firm will produce only 200,000 blue rugs per year. The budgeted selling price is $2,000each. There are no rugs in beginning inventory. Target ending inventory of rugs is also zero.

Xerxes makes rugs by? hand, but uses a machine to dye the wool.? Thus, overhead costs are accumulated in two cost poolslong dashonefor 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).

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Requirements

1.	Prepare a direct material usage budget in both units and dollars.
2.	Calculate the budgeted overhead allocation rates for weaving and dyeing.
3.	Calculate the budgeted unit cost of a blue rug for the year.
4.	Prepare a revenue budget for blue rugs for the? year, assuming Xerxes sells? (a) 200,000 or? (b) 185,000 blue rugs? (that is, at two different sales? levels).
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.