Managerial Accounting: The Cornerstone of Business Decision-Making
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Chapter 8, Problem 58P
Sell or Process Further
Zanda Drug Corporation buys three chemicals that are processed to produce two types of analgesics used as ingredients for popular over-the-counter drugs. The purchased chemicals are blended for 2 to 3 hours and then heated for 15 minutes. The results of the process are two separate analgesics, depryl and pencol, which are sent to a drying room until their moisture content is reduced to 6 to 8%. For every 1,300 pounds of chemicals used, 600 pounds of depryl and 600 pounds of pencol are produced. After drying, depryl and pencol are sold to companies that process them into their final form. The selling prices are $12 per pound for depryl and $30 per pound for pencol. The costs to produce 600 pounds of each analgesic are as follows:
The analgesics are packaged in 20-pound bags and shipped. The cost of each bag is $1.30. Shipping costs $0.10 per pound.
Zanda could process depryl further by grinding it into a fine powder and then molding the powder into tablets. The tablets can be sold directly to retail drug stores as a generic brand. If this route were taken, the revenue received per bottle of tablets would be $4.00, with 10 bottles produced by every pound of depryl. The costs of grinding and tableting total $2.50 per pound of depryl. Bottles cost $0.40 each. Bottles are shipped in boxes that hold 25 bottles at a shipping cost of $1.60 per box.
Required:
- 1. CONCEPTUAL CONNECTION Should Zanda sell depryl at split-off, or should depryl be processed and sold as tablets?
- 2. If Zanda normally sells 265,000 pounds of depryl per year, what will be the difference in profits if depryl is processed further?
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9,000
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3,600
Overhead
8,000
The pain relievers are bottled in five-gallon plastic containers and shipped. The cost of each container is $2.10. The costs of shipping are $0.50 per container.
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Carina Company produces sanitation products after processing specialized chemicals; Thefollowing relates to its activities:
1 Kilogram of chemicals purchased for $2000 and with an additional $1000 isprocessed into 400 grams of Crystals and 80 litres of a Cleaning agent. At split-off, agram of Crystal can be sold for $1 and the Cleaning agent can be sold for $4 per litre.
At an additional cost of $400, Carina can process the 400 grams of Crystal into 500 grams of Detergent that can be sold for $2 per gram. The 80 litres of Cleaning agent is packaged at an additional cost of $300 and made into 200 packs of Softener that can be sold for $2 per pack.
Required:
1. Allocate the joint cost to the Detergent and the Softener using the following:
a. Sales value at split-off method
b. NRV method
2. Should Carina have processed each of the products further? What effect does the allocationmethod have on this decision? Make full references to Question 1 when possible
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Managerial Accounting: The Cornerstone of Business Decision-Making
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