Blasto, Inc., operates several mines. At one, a typical batch of ore run through the plant yields
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Blasto, Inc., operates several mines. At one, a typical batch of ore run through the plant yields three products: lead, copper, and manganese. At the split-off point, the intermediate products cannot be sold without further processing. The lead from a typical batch sells for $160,000 after incurring additional processing costs of $48,000. The copper is sold for $320,000 after additional processing costs of $40,000, and the manganese yield sells for $240,000 but requires additional processing costs of $72,000. The joint costs of processing the raw ore, including the cost of mining, are
$400,000 per batch.
Required Use the estimated net realizable value method to allocate the joint processing costs.
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Fundamentals Of Cost Accounting
ISBN: 0071332618
2nd Edition
Authors: William Lanen, Shannon Anderson