YELLOW CORPORATION has a single manufacturing process, from which four items emerge: BLUE, WHITE, RED and POOPIE. The company accounts for by-products at time of production by inventorying their sales value. The following information is available regarding the production from last month:

Per unit

Additional

Per unit

Production

Sales Value

processing Sales value after

(pounds)

at split-off

per pound

further processing

BLUE

2,000

$0.50

$1.60

$21.60

WHITE

7,000

-

$2.00

$17.00

RED

1,000

$0.60

$4.50

$59.50

POOPIE

10,000

$0.01

-

-

BLUE, RED AND POOPIE are all salable at the split-off point. WHITE cannot be sold at split-off, and the company is unable to estimate a value at that point. Joint production costs for the month totaled $51,000

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7. Using the physical units basis of allocation, the amount of joint cost allocated to RED is: $____________

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8. Using the sales value at split-off method of allocation, the amount of joint cost allocated to BLUE is:

$___________

9. Using the net-realizable-value method, joint cost allocated to WHITE will be:

$___________

10. Using the NRV method to allocate the joint costs, what is the journal entry to represent the allocation of the joint costs to the main products?

DEBIT CREDIT

11. CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT:

"In order to determine whether a joint product should be process further, joint costs should be allocated to the products"

Agree or disagree and WHY?