Textbook Problem

Direct Materials Purchases Budget

Langer Company produces plastic items, including plastic housings for humidifiers. Each housing requires about 15 ounces of plastic costing $0.08 per ounce. Langer molds the plastic into the proper shape. Langer has budgeted production of the housings for the next 4 months as follows:

Inventory policy requires that sufficient plastic be in ending monthly inventory to satisfy 20% of the following month’s production needs. The inventory of plastic at the beginning of July equals exactly the amount needed to satisfy the inventory policy.

Required:

Prepare a direct materials purchases budget for July, August, and September, showing purchases in units and in dollars for each month and in total.