Nascar Company manufactures an innovative automobile transmission for electric cars. Management predicts that ending inventory for the first quarter will be 37,500 units. The following unit sales of the transmissions are expected during the rest of the year: second quarter, 225,000 units; third quarter, 262,500 units; and fourth quarter, 237,500 units. Company policy calls for the ending inventory of a quarter to equal 20% of the next quarter's budgeted sales. Each transmission requires 4 direct labor hours, at a cost of $9 per hour.
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| Prepare a direct labor budget for the second quarter. (Omit the "$" sign in your response.) |
NASCAR COMPANY
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