Frontleg Chocolate Company manufactures and sells a premium chocolate called PremiumChoco. The following data are...
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Frontleg Chocolate Company manufactures and sells a premium chocolate called PremiumChoco. The following data are available for preparing budgets for PremiumChoco for June through August of 2020. 1. Sales: June , 30,000 pounds; July, 56,000 pounds, August 58,000 pounds. 2. Direct materials: each pound of PremiumChoco requires 5 pounds of cacao seeds at a cost of $2.95 per pound and 4 pounds of cane sugar at $.50 per pound. 3. Desired inventory levels: Type of Inventory May 1 June 1 July 1 August 1 PremiumChoco (pounds) 7,000 8,000 15,000 18,000 cacao seeds (pounds) 6,000 9,000 10,000 13,000 cane sugar (pounds) 5,000 14,000 20,000 25,000 4. Direct labor: direct labor time is 30 minutes per pound at an hourly rate of $20 per hour. 5. Selling and administrative expenses are expected to be .05 cents per unit sold plus $82,000 per month. 6. Your assistant has prepared two budgets: (1) The manufacturing overhead budget shows expected costs to be 150% of direct labor cost (all variable costs). 7. The company uses a 30% markup percentage on total cost 8. Interest Expense is $150,000. 9. Income taxes are expected to be 21% of income before income taxes.
Instructions 1) Prepare the direct material budget for Cacao Seeds & Cane Sugar
This is all of the information given in the problem and the professor wants this table to be completed. I'm not sure how to complete it with the information given.
Frontleg Chocolate Company
Direct Materials Budget - Cacao Seeds
For the Three Months Ending August 31, 2020
Month
Three
June
July
August
Months
Units to be produced
Direct materials per unit (lbs.)
Total pounds needed for production
Add: Desired ending direct materials (lbs.)
Total materials required
Less: Beginning direct materials (lbs.)
Direct materials purchases
Cost per pound
Total cost of direct materials purchases
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