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Grassy Fertilizer manufactures two lines of garden grade fertilizeras part of a

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Question

Grassy Fertilizer manufactures two lines of garden grade fertilizeras part of a joint production process: GF10 and GF20. Joint costsup to Grassy’s split-off point total $85,000 per batch. Thesejoint costs are allocated to GF10 and GF20 in proportion to theirrelative sales values at the split-off point of $40,000 and$60,000, respectively.

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Final Selling Price

Processing

Batch of commercial

Cost

Grade fertilizer

GF10

$18,000

$67,000

GF20

38,000

97,000

(a) The $85,000 in joint costs should be allocated to each productas follows:
GF10 $____________, GF20 $____________

(b) Which product (GF10 or GF20) would result in a net decrease inoperating income if processed into a commercial grade fertilizer?____________

(c) Which product (GF10 or GF20) would result in a net increase inoperating income if processed into a commercial grade fertilizer?____________

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Final Selling Price

Processing

Batch of commercial

Cost

Grade fertilizer

GF10

$18,000

$67,000

GF20

38,000

97,000

Explanation / Answer

(a) The$85,000 in joint costs should be allocated to each product asfollows:
      GF10 $34,000, GF20 $51,000
       GF10   $85,000 x $40,000 /$100,000   =   $34,000 GF20   $85,000 x $60,000 /$100,000   =   $51,000 GF20   $85,000 x $60,000 /$100,000   =   $51,000 (b) Whichproduct (GF10 or GF20) would result in a net decrease in operatingincome if processed into a commercial gradefertilizer? GF20
                                                               GF10                                       GF20                                                 AtSplit Off      FurtherProcessed      At Splitoff          FurtherProcessed                                                 AtSplit Off      FurtherProcessed      At Splitoff          FurtherProcessed Sellingprice                                $40,000                        $67,000           $60,000                $97,000 Allocatedjointcost                    -$34,000                      -$34,000         -$51,000                 -$51,000 Additionalprocessingcost               0                             -$18,000                  0                   -$38,000 OperatingIncome                     $6,000                         $15,000          $9,000                  $8,000 (c) Whichproduct (GF10 or GF20) would result in a net increase in operatingincome if processed into a commercial gradefertilizer? GF10