Question

Peanut-Fresh Inc. produces all-natural organic peanut butter. The peanut butter is sold in 12-ounce jars. The sales budget for the first four months of the year is as follows:Unit Sales Dollar Sales ($)January 48,000 100,800 February 46,000 96,600 March 55,000 121,000 April 58,000 125,200 Company policy requires that ending inventories for each month be 20% of next month's sales. At the beginning of January, the inventory of peanut butter is 14,500 jars.Each jar of peanut butter needs two raw materials: 24 ounces of peanuts and one jar. Company policy requires that ending inventories of raw materials for each month be 10% of the next month's production needs. That policy was met on January 1.Required:1. Prepare a production budget for the first quarter of the year. Show the number of jars that should be produced each month as well as for the quarter in total.

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