Soriano Company is preparing its master budget for 2012. Relevant data pertaining to its sales, production, and direct materials budgets are as follows:
Sales: Sales for the year are expected to total 1,200,000 units. Quarterly sales, as a percent of total sales, are 20%, 25%, 30%, and 25%, respectively. The sales price is expected to be $50 per unit for the first three quarters and $55 per unit beginning in the fourth quarter. Sales in the first quarter of 2013 are expected to be 10% higher than the budgeted sales for the first quarter of 2012.
Production: Management desires to maintain the ending finished goods inventories at 25% of the next quarter’s budgeted sales volume.
Direct materials: Each unit requires 3 pounds of raw materials at a cost of $5 per pound. Management desires to maintain raw materials inventories at 5% of the next quarter’s production requirements. Assume the production requirements for the first quarter of 2013 are 810,000 pounds.
Prepare the sales, production, and direct materials budgets by quarters for 2012.