Question

Anticipated sales for Safety Grip Company were 39,000 passenger car tires and 12,000 truck tires. Rubber and steel belts are used in producing passenger car and truck tires as follows:

	Passenger Car	Truck
Rubber	34 lbs. per unit	79 lbs. per unit
Steel belts	4 lbs. per unit	10 lbs. per unit

The purchase prices of rubber and steel are $3.10 and $4.10 per pound, respectively. The desired ending inventories of rubber and steel belts are 37,000 and 8,000 pounds, respectively. The estimated beginning inventories for rubber and steel belts are 43,000 and 6,000 pounds, respectively.

Prepare a direct materials purchases budget for Safety Grip Company for the year ended December 31, 20Y9.

Safety Grip Company
Direct Materials Purchases Budget
For the Year Ending December 31, 20Y9
	Rubber	Steel Belts	Total
Pounds required for production:
Passenger tires	fill in the blank 1 lbs.	fill in the blank 2 lbs.
Truck tires	fill in the blank 3	fill in the blank 4
	fill in the blank 6	fill in the blank 7
Total pounds available	fill in the blank 8 lbs.	fill in the blank 9 lbs.
	fill in the blank 11	fill in the blank 12
Total units purchased	fill in the blank 13 lbs.	fill in the blank 14 lbs.
Unit price	x $fill in the blank 15	x $fill in the blank 16
Total direct materials to be purchased	$fill in the blank 17	$fill in the blank 18	$fill in the blank 19

Answer 1