Bosworth Boxes makes cardboard boxes. For March and April, Bosworth expects to produce 12,000 and 15,800 boxes, respectively.

The main material input for Bosworth’s boxes is cardboard. To make one box, Bosworth budgets to use 12 linear feet of 2-foot-wide cardboard at a cost of $0.75 per linear foot. Further, while Bosworth expects to begin March with 50,000 linear feet of 2-foot-wide cardboard, its direct materials inventory policy is to have 40 percent of the next month’s total material needs in ending inventory.

Required:

a. Prepare Bosworth’s cardboard purchases budget for March.

b. Prepare Bosworth’s cardboard usage budget for March. Assume that Bosworth’s beginning inventory of cardboard is also valued at $0.75 per linear foot and that Bosworth uses the First-In-First-Out (FIFO) inventory method.

c. (Appendix) Suppose Bosworth values its beginning inventory of cardboard at $0.70 per linear foot, but still expects to pay $0.75 per linear foot for March purchases. Assuming Bosworth uses a FIFO cost flow assumption, what is Bosworth’s cardboard usage budget for March?