Miramichi Industrial Products Co. is a diversified industrial-cleaner processing company. The companys main plant produces two products: a table cleaner and a floor cleaner. They are made from a common set of chemical inputs (called CDG). Each week, the company processes 31,050 litres of chemical input at a cost of $210,000 into 20,700 litres of floor cleaner and 10,350 litres of table cleaner. The floor cleaner has no market value until it is converted into a polish with the trade name FloorShine. The additional processing costs for this conversion total $246,400. FloorShine sells at $20 per one-litre bottle. The table cleaner can be sold for $25 per one-litre bottle. However, the table cleaner can be converted into two other products by adding 10,350 litres of another compound (TCP) to the 10,350 litres of table cleaner. This joint process will yield 10,350 litres each of table stain remover and table polish. The additional processing costs for this process are $120,200. Both table products can be sold for $21 per one-litre bottle. The company decided not to process the table cleaner into table stain remover and table polish based on the following analysis:

			Process Further
	Table Cleaner		Table Stain Remover		Table Polish		Total
Production in litres	(10,350)		10,350		10,350
Revenue	$258,750		$217,350		$217,350		$434,700
Costs:
CDG costs	70,000a		52,500		52,500		105,000b
TCP costs	0		60,100		60,100		120,200
Total costs	70,000		112,600		112,600		225,200
Weekly gross profit	$188,750		$104,750		$104,750		$209,500

^a If the table cleaner is not processed further, it is allocated one-third of the $210,000 of CDG cost, which is equal to one-third of the total physical output. ^b If the table cleaner is processed further, the total physical output is 41,400 litres. Table stain remover and table polish combined account for 50% of the total physical output and are each allocated 25% of the CDG cost.

Do the following to determine whether management made the correct decision by not processing the table cleaner further.

(1) Calculate the company's total weekly gross profit assuming the table cleaner is not processed further.

Companys total weekly gross profit

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(2) Calculate the company's total weekly gross profit assuming the table cleaner is processed further.

Companys total weekly gross profit

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(3) Compare the resulting net incomes and comment on management's decision.

Management made the correctincorrect decision by choosing to not process table cleaner further.

Using incremental analysis, determine whether the table cleaner should be processed further. (If an amount reduces the net income then enter with a negative sign preceding the number, e.g.-15,000 or parenthesis, e.g. (15,000).)

		Don't Process Further		Process Further		Net Income Increase (Decrease)
Incremental revenues		$		$		$
Incremental costs
Totals		$		$		$

The table cleaner should notshould be processed further.