The production budget cannot be prepared until the direct materials and the direct labor budgets are prepared.
True or False?
Answer: False
Production budget should be prepared first in order to see the number of units to be produced; and then the input budgets (direct material budget and direct labor budget) should be prepared. This is required for understanding the required match.
Example: Suppose a production budget gives information of expected production 5,000 units. Direct material requires 2 units for each production unit at $3 per unit and direct labor requires 0.5 hours per production unit at $4 per hour. Therefore,
Direct material budget = (5,000 × 2) × $3 = $30,000
Direct labor budget = (5,000 × 0.5) × $4 = $10,000
If there was no production budget, there will be non-availability of production units which doesn’t make sense of preparing those direct material budget and direct labor budget.
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