MCO Leather manufactures leather purses. Each purse requires 2 pounds of direct materials at a cost of $4 per pound and 0.7 direct labor hour at a rate of $15 per hour. Variable overhead is budgeted at a rate of $2 per direct labor hour. Budgeted fixed overhead is $13,000 per month. The company's policy is to end each month with direct materials inventory equal to 20% of the next month's direct materials requirement. At the end of August the company had 1,920 pounds of direct materials in inventory. The company's production budget reports the following. Production Budget Units to produce September 4,800 October 6,500 November 6,100 (1) Prepare direct materials budgets for September and October. (2) Prepare direct labor budgets for September and October. (3) Prepare factory overhead budgets for September and October.
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![MCO Leather manufactures leather purses. Each purse requires 2 pounds of direct
materials at a cost of $4 per pound and 0.7 direct labor hour at a rate of $15 per hour.
Variable overhead is budgeted at a rate of $2 per direct labor hour. Budgeted fixed
overhead is $13,000 per month. The company's policy is to end each month with direct
materials inventory equal to 20% of the next month's direct materials requirement. At the
end of August the company had 1,920 pounds of direct materials in inventory. The
company's production budget reports the following.
Production Budget
Units to produce
September October
4,800
November
6,500
6,100
(1) Prepare direct materials budgets for September and October.
(2) Prepare direct labor budgets for September and October.
(3) Prepare factory overhead budgets for September and October.
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Prepare direct materials budgets for September and October.
MCO Leather
Direct Materials Budget
September
October
Units to produce
Materials needed for production (pounds)
Total materials required (pounds)
Materials to purchase (pounds)
Cost of direct materials purchases
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