E$15\mathrm{.}4($LO $2),$ AN Josie is looking back at her work from last year, wistorically used the NRV method to allocate

cess costs to its three products. She knows that the company the final allocations and supporting detail is only partially

joint costs. Unfortunately, the printout that she has of the in office last week, and Josie's printout was the

legible. You see, Gerald accidently set the sprinklers of what she could see from the printout; she noted missing

recipient of most of that water. Here is a replica

information with lowercase roman numerals.

Units produced $($available$)$ at split$-$off point

Sales value per unit at split$-$off point

Units produced $($available$)$ after further processing

Final sales value per unit after further processing

Further processing costs

Allocated joint costs

Required

a$.$ Fill in the missing details for each product.

b$.$ If Josie's company had instead used the physical quantities method for allocating joint costs, how different

would the allocated costs have been for each product?

c$.$ Under the existing NRV method, which product has the highest gross margin percentage assuming all

quantities available after further processing are sold for the given price? If the physical quantities method

is used, which product has the highest gross margin percentage $($again$,$ assuming all quantities avail$-$

able are sold for the given price after further processing$)?$ Should product preference$/$priority decisions be

based on information from either of these methods? Explain your answer.

Anwer question number e$15\mathrm{.}4$