A company makes two products from a joint input that have the following
information:
Sales Value
Estimated further
Sales value after
Pounds
per pound
processing costs
additional processing
Produced
at split off
per pound
per pound
Corn oil
60000
$0.65
$0.45
$0.75
Corn meal
110000
$0.50
$0.55
$1.20
The joint cost incurred to produce the two products to the split off point is $130000
A. Assume that the joint cost is assigned using physical units at split off of each product.
How much joint cost would be allocated to each product?
B. Assume that the joint cost is allocated to the products based on the sales value at split
off of each product. How much joint cost would be allocated to each product?
C. Which product(s) should be processed further? Be sure to show all
calculations.
D. Which of the product(s) should be processed further? Be sure to explain the effect on
profit of the decision to process further or not to process further.