QS $22-28$A $($Algo$)$ Merchandising: Merchandise purchases budget LO P$4$

Raider$-$X Company budgets sales of $20,000$ units for April and $22,000$ units for May. Beginning inventory on April $1$ is $6,000$ units, and the company wants to have $30\%$ of next month's unit sales in inventory at the end of each month. The merchandise cost per unit is $$3.$ Prepare a merchandise purchases budget for the month of April.

$\backslash$table$[[$RAIDER$-$X COMPANY$],[$Merchandise Purchases Budget,$],[$Budgeted sales units,April$],[,20,000],[$Next period budgeted sales units,$],[$Ratio of inventory to future sales,$22,000],[,30\%$