The production processes involved in making maple syrup also can produce maple sugar. Vt. Sugar Enterprises wishes to produce only syrup, but on occasion some sugaring takes place. Production for April produced the following results:

Required:
a. Calculate the cost of the syrup if the sugar is considered a by-product and the gross margin from its sale is considered to be a reduction of syrup cost.
b. Calculate product costs assuming this company decided to make and sell as much maple sugar as possible after filling all syrup orders (i.e., it regarded syrup and sugar as joint products). Use the sales value method.

Syrup 20,000 $15.00 Sugar 1,000 $2.00 Total 21,000 Units produced Unit selling price Total process costs: After split-off Joint costs $12,000 $280 $12,280 $100,000