Kirk Minerals processes materials extracted from mines. The most common raw material that it processes results in three joint products: Spock, Uhura, and Sulu. Each of these products can be sold as is, or each can be processed further and sold for a higher price. The company incurs joint costs of $180,000 to process one batch of the raw material that produces the three joint products. The following cost and sales information is available for one batch of each product.

Sales value at split-off point Allocate joint costs Cost to process further Sales value of processed product

Spock $210,000 $40,000 $110,000 $300,000

Uhura 300,000 60,000 85,000 400,000

Sulu 455,000 80,000 250,000 800,000

Instructions

Determine whether each of the three joint products should be sold as is, or processed further.