Gildan, Inc. is the main manufacturing of IPads in Australia. Their budgeted sales for the first quarter of the year 2017 are the following:
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Months
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IPads
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Budgeted Production Units
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January
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70,000
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69,000
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February
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55,000
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58,000
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March
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60,000
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57,000
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|
|
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The company's policy requires maintaining units on hand at the end of each month equal to 20% of next month's budgeted unit sales, and to maintain materials at the end of each month equal to 10% of the next month's production needs. Each IPads requires 4 pounds of material and 15 minutes of direct labor to produce. Employees are paid $15 per hour. Manufacturing overhead is applied at $5.40 per direct labor hour.
Required: Prepare a direct labor budget for the month of February 28, 2017.