Breakfasttime Cereal Company manufactures two breakfast cereals in a joint process. Cost and quantity
information is as follows:
Joint Cost Cereal Quantity at Split-Off Point Sales Price per Kilogram
$30,000 Yummies ..................... 12,000 kilograms ..................................... $2.00
Crummies .................... 8,000 kilograms ..................................... 2.50

Required: Use the physical-units method to allocate the company’s joint production cost between
Yummies and Crummies.


Refer to the data given in the preceding exercise.
Required: Use the relative-sales-value method to allocate Breakfasttime Cereal Company’s joint production
cost between Yummies and Crummies.


Refer to the data given in Exercise 17–20 . Breakfasttime Cereal Company has an opportunity to process
its Crummies further into a mulch for ornamental shrubs. The additional processing operation costs $.50
per kilogram, and the mulch will sell for $3.50 per kilogram.

Required:
1. Should Breakfasttime’s management decide to process Crummies into the mulch? Why?
2. Suppose the company does process Crummies into the mulch. Use the net-realizable-value method
to allocate the joint production cost between the mulch and the Yummies.


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