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Budgeting help

MMandip11y ago
Hi i have question on budgeting. Its from the BPP book but i am confused with how they got the answer. Company makes a component M which uses 3 kg of raw material X. Opening inventory of start of year is: 5,000kg ($4 a kg) and 3,000 units. Budgeted sales is 48,000 throughout the year (evenly). Closing inventory at the end of the year is: Raw material x = one months worth of production Units of M = 2 months worth of sales. i have managed to work our the closing units of m = 8,000 but the book has the closing inventory of material x to be (96,000/12) = 8,000. i do not know where they have got the figure 96,000 from? please help
John MoffatJohn MoffatTutor11y ago#1
Several people have asked about this. It is obviously a mistake by BPP. It should be 3 x 48000/12 kg = 12,000 kg.
MMandip11y ago#2
i thought so. Thank you for getting back to me so quickly. Much appreciated
John MoffatJohn MoffatTutor11y ago#3
You are welcome :-)
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