Horngren's Cost Accounting, Student Value Edition Plus MyLab Accounting with Pearson eText - Access Card Package (16th Edition)
Horngren's Cost Accounting, Student Value Edition Plus MyLab Accounting with Pearson eText - Access Card Package (16th Edition)
16th Edition
ISBN: 9780134642468
Author: Srikant M. Datar, Madhav V. Rajan
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 16, Problem 16.21E

Joint-cost allocation, insurance settlement. Quality Chicken grows and processes chickens. Each chicken is disassembled into five main parts. Information pertaining to production in July 2017 is as follows:

Parts Pounds of Product Wholesale Selling Price per Pound When Production Is Complete
Breasts 100 $0.55
Wings 20 0.20
Thighs 40 0.35
Bones 80 0.10
Feathers 10 0.05

Joint cost of production in July 2017 was $50.

A special shipment of 40 pounds of breasts and 15 pounds of wings has been destroyed in a fire. Quality Chicken’s insurance policy provides reimbursement for the cost of the items destroyed. The insurance company permits Quality Chicken to use a joint-cost-allocation method. The splitoff point is assumed to be at the end of the production process.

  1. 1. Compute the cost of the special shipment destroyed using the following:

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  1. a. Sales value at splitoff method
  2. b. Physical-measure method (pounds of finished product)
  3. 2. What joint-cost-allocation method would you recommend Quality Chicken use? Explain.
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