Sheridan Company is preparing its master budget for 2020. Relevant data pertaining to its sales, production, and direct materials budgets are as follows.
Sales. Sales for the year are expected to total 1,100,000 units. Quarterly sales are 22%, 27%, 26%, and 25%, respectively. The sales
price is expected to be $38 per unit for the first three quarters and $45 per unit beginning in the fourth quarter. Sales in the first
quarter of 2021 are expected to be 15% higher than the budgeted sales for the first quarter of 2020.
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 2 pounds of raw materials at a cost of $10 per pound. Management desires to maintain raw
materials inventories at 10% of the next quarter's production requirements. Assume the production requirements for first
quarter of 2021 are 492,000 pounds.
Prepare the sales, production, and direct materials budgets by quarters for 2020.