A coffee roaster in Richardson has opened a retail store adjacent to the production plant. The plant manager wishes to optimize the inventory costs of the company’s best-selling coffee. The annual demand for the coffee is 36,000 bags and the plant works 240 days per yr. The plant can roast the coffee at a rate of 200 bags per day. The cost to prepare the equipment to start a production run is $200 and the annual inventory carrying cost is $3.6 per year. 1. What should be the optimum quantity of coffee to produce?

The direct labor budget of yuvwell corporation for the upcoming fiscal year contains the following details concerning budgeted direct labor-hours: 1st quarter 2nd quarter 3rd quarter 4th quarterbudgeted direct labor-hours 11,200 9,800 10,100 10,900the company uses direct labor-hours as its overhead allocation base. the variable portion of its predetermined manufacturing overhead rate is $6.00 per direct labor-hour and its total fixed manufacturing overhead is $80,000 per quarter. the only noncash item included in fixed manufacturing overhead is depreciation, which is $20,000 per quarter.required: 1. prepare the company’s manufacturing overhead budget for the upcoming fiscal year.2. compute the company’s predetermined overhead rate (including both variable and fixed manufacturing overhead) for the upcoming fiscal year.