Reference no: EM132730016

Question - Davidson's Company makes and sells chairs. The Controller is responsible for preparing the master budget and has accumulated the following information for the year.

	January	February	March	April	May
Estimated Sales (units)	15,000	18,000	13,000	14,000	14,000
Sales Price per unit	$85	$75	$75	$75	$75
Direct labour hours per unit	2	2	1.5	1.5	1.5
Wage per direct labour hour	$18	$18	$18	$20	$20

Davidson Company has a labour contract that calls for a wage increase of $20 per hour on April 1.

It has installed new labour-saving machinery, which will be fully operational by March 1.

The company expects to begin the year with 24,000 chairs on hand and has a policy of carrying an end of month inventory of 100% of the following months sales plus 50% of the next month's sales.

Instructions - Prepare a production budget and a direct labour budget for the company, by month and for the first quarter of the year. The direct labour budget should include direct labour hours and show the detail for each direct labour cost category.

For each item used in the production budget and its direct labour budget, identify the other components of the master budget that would also use this data.