Bethany Lutrell's uncle has asked her to take over the family poultry processing plant. Provide Lutrell, who graduated in engineering, answers to the following issues:
a. What are the important questions to be answered about joint processes in a poultry processing plant? Also indicate the points in a joint process at which these questions should be answered.
b. How should joint costs be used in managerial decision making? When and why might a joint cost be used inappropriately in decision making?
c. How are joint process outputs similar and dissimilar?