MCO Leather manufactures leather purses. Each purse requires 2 pounds of direct materials at a cost of $4 per pound and 0.7 direct labor hour at a rate of $12 per hour. Variable overhead is budgeted at a rate of $2 per direct labor hour. Budgeted fixed overhead is $10,000 per month. The company’s policy is to end each month with direct materials inventory equal to 40% of the next month’s direct materials requirement. At the end of August the company had 3,440 pounds of direct materials in inventory. The company’s production budget reports the following.


Production Budget September October November
Units to produce 4,300 7,200 6,800

(1) Prepare direct materials budgets for September and October.
(2) Prepare direct labor budgets for September and October.
(3) Prepare factory overhead budgets for September and October.