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Three grams of musk oil are required for each bottle of MinkCaress, a very popular perfume made by a small company in westernSiberia. The cost of the musk oil is $1.50 per gram. Budgetedproduction of Mink Caress is given below by quarters for Year 2 andfor the first quarter of Year 3.

Budgeted production in bottles

Firstsecondthirdfourthfirst (year 3)
60,00090,000150,000100,00070,000

Musk oil has become so popular as a perfume ingredient that ithas become necessary to carry large inventories as a precautionagainst all stock-outs. For this reason the inventory of musk oilat the end of the quarter must be equal to 20% of the followingquarter's production needs. Some 36,000 grams of musk oil will beon hand to start the first quarter of year 2.

Required:

prepare a direct materials budget for musk oil, by quarter andin total, for year 2.

firstsecondthirdfourthyear
required production in units of finished goods60,00090,000150,000100,000400,000
units of raw materials needed per unit of finished goods33333
units of raw materials needed to meet production180,000270,000450,000300,0001,200,000
add: Desired units of ending raw materials inventory54,00090,00060,0042,00042,000
total units of raw material needed234,000360,00
Less: units of beginning raw materials inventory
units of raw materials to be purchased
unit cost of raw materials
cost of raw materials to be purchased

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