Alpha Company manufactures products XX-1 and XX-2 from a joint process. Total joint costs are $300,000. The

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Alpha Company manufactures products XX-1 and XX-2 from a joint process. Total joint costs are $300,000. The sales value at split-off was $350,000 for 4,000 units of product XX-1 and $150,000 for 1,000 units of product XX-2.


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Assuming that total joint costs are allocated using the net realizable value at split-off approach, what amount of the joint costs was allocated to product XX-1?


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Fundamentals of Cost Accounting

ISBN: 978-0077398194

3rd Edition

Authors: William Lanen, Shannon Anderson, Michael Maher

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