Montrose Instrumentation produces measurement equipment. One component, used in a variety of the company's products, is critical and the supply chain often breaks. For that reason, Montrose has a policy to hold in inventory enough of the component to produce three month's worth of sales (one component is used in each unit of product in which it is used). On February 1, the company has 31,000 components in stock. Sales of the units in which the component is used in each of the next six months are estimated to be as follows: February 32,500 March 26,500 April 28,000 May 33,550 June 30,150 July 42,110

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Montrose Instrumentation produces measurement equipment. One component, used in a variety of the company's products, is critical and the supply chain often breaks. For that reason, Montrose has a policy to hold in inventory enough of the component to produce three month's worth of sales (one component is used in each unit of product in which it is used). On February 1, the company has 31,000 components in stock. Sales of the units in which the component is used in each of the next six months are estimated to be as follows:

February 32,500
March 26,500
April 28,000
May 33,550
June 30,150
July 42,110

Parts are purchased at a wholesale price of $46. The vendor has a financing arrangement by which Montrose pays 40 percent of the purchase price in the month when the components are delivered and 60 percent in the following month. Montrose purchased 38,000 parts in January.

Required:

  1. Estimate purchases of the component (in units) for February and March.

  2. Estimate the cash disbursements for the component in February and March.

 
 
 
 
 
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