Manitoba Soy Products (MSP) buys soy beans and processes them into other soy products. Each tonne of

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Manitoba Soy Products (MSP) buys soy beans and processes them into other soy products. Each tonne of soy beans that MSP purchases for $300 scan be converted for an additional $200 into 500 lbs of soy meal and 100 gallons of soy oil. A pound of soy meal can be sold at splitoff for $1 and soy oil can be sold in bulk for $4 per gallon.

MSP can process the 500 lbs of soy meal into 600 lbs of soy cookies at an additional cost of $300. Each pound of soy cookies can be sold for $2 per pound. The 100 gallons of soy oil can be packaged at a cost of $200 and made into 400 quarts of Soyola. Each quart of Soyola can be sold for $1.25.

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1. Allocate the joint cost to the cookies and the Soyola using:

a. Sales value at splitoff method.

b. NRV method.

2. Should MSP have processed each of the products further? What effect does the allocation method have on this decision?

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Cost Accounting A Managerial Emphasis

ISBN: 978-0133138443

7th Canadian Edition

Authors: Srikant M. Datar, Madhav V. Rajan, Charles T. Horngren, Louis Beaubien, Chris Graham

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