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Down Under Products, Ltd., of Australia has budgeted sales of its popular boomerang for the next four months as follows:
Unit Sales | |||
April | 80,000 | ||
May | 90,000 | ||
June | 120,000 | ||
July | 95,000 | ||
The company is now in the process of preparing a production budget for the second quarter. Past experience has shown that end-of-month inventory levels must equal 10% of the following month’s unit sales. The inventory at the end of March was 8,000 units.
Required:
Prepare a production budget by month and in total, for the second quarter.
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