Managerial Accounting: Creating Value in a Dynamic Business Environment
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ISBN: 9781259569562
Author: Ronald W Hilton Proffesor Prof, David Platt
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 9, Problem 39P
Vista Electronics, Inc. manufactures two different types of coils used in electric motors. In the fall of the current year, Erica Becker, the controller, compiled the following data.
- Sales
forecast for 20x0 (all units to be shipped in 20x0):
- Raw-material prices and inventory levels:
- Use of raw material:
- Direct-labor requirements and rates:
- Finished-goods inventories (in units):
- Production overhead:
Required: Prepare the following budgets for 20x0.
- 1. Sales budget (in dollars).
- 2. Production budget (in units).
- 3. Raw-material purchases budget (in quantities).
- 4. Raw-material purchases budget (in dollars).
- 5. Direct-labor budget (in dollars).
- 6. Production-overhead budget (in dollars).
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