Ramos Co. provides the following sales forecast and production budget for the next four months:

The company plans for finished goods inventory of 120 units at the end of June. In addition, each finished unit requires 5 pounds of direct materials and the company wants to end each month with direct materials inventory equal to 30% of next month's production needs. Beginning direct materials inventory for April was 663 pounds. Direct materials cost $2 per pound. Each finished unit requires 0.50 hours of direct labor at the rate of $16 per hour. The company budgets variable overhead at the rate of $20 per direct labor hour and budgets fixed overhead of $8,000 per month. Prepare a direct materials budget for April, May, and June.

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Apri May June July 500 580 530 600 442 570 544 540 Sales (unlts) Budgeted production (unlts)