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Direct Materials Purchases Budget Smart Strike Company manufactures and sells soccer balls for tea ...
Direct Materials Purchases Budget Smart Strike Company manufactures and sells soccer balls for teams of children in elementary and high school. Smart Strike's best-selling lines are the practice ball line (durable soccer balls for training and practice) and the match ball line (high-performance soccer balls used in games). In the first four months of next year, Smart Strike expects to sell the following: Smart Strike requires ending inventory of product to equal 25 percent of the next month's unit sales. Beginning inventory in January was 2,400 practice soccer balls and 400 match soccer balls. Every practice ball requires \( 0.7 \) square yard of polyvinyl chloride panels, one bladder with valve (to fill with air), and 3 ounces of glue. Smart Strike's policy is that 10 percent of the following month's production needs for raw materials be in ending inventory. Beginning inventory in January for all raw materials met this requirement. Required:
Construct a direct materials purchases budget for each type of raw materials for the practice ball line for January and February of the coming year. If required, round your answers to the nearest cent. HINT: Units Produced = Expected Sales + Desired Ending Inventory - Beginning Inventory. Direct materials purchases budget for polyvinyl chloride panels:
Direct materials purchases budget for bladder and valve:
Direct materials purchases budget for glue: