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Decision Making When Joint Products are Involved

The Accounting Review

Vol. 46, No. 4 (Oct., 1971)

, pp. 746-755 (10 pages)

Published By: American Accounting Association

https://www.jstor.org/stable/244253

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should be sold at the split-off point or processed further? An incremental cost is the change in cost that will result from some proposed action. An opportunity cost is the benefit that is lost or sacrificed in rejecting some course of action. A sunk cost is a cost that has already been incurred and that cannot be changed by any future decision

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What are the basic rules to determine whether a joint product should be sold at the split

Answer: A product should be sold at the split-off point if there is not any incremental profit from processing the product further. As long as the process as a whole is profitable, it is irrelevant if an individual product is not profitable.

Which products should be sold at split off and which products should be processed further?

Split-off point refers to the moment in the manufacturing process when different products become separately identifiable. If the incremental sales revenue is greater than incremental costs, it makes sense to process further. Otherwise, it is better to sell at the split-off point.

What is the split

A split-off point is the location in a production process where jointly manufactured products are henceforth manufactured separately; thus, their costs can be identified individually after the split-off point. Prior to the split-off point, production costs are allocated to jointly manufactured products.

How does a company determine whether to sell a product as is or process it further?

The decision whether to process further is based on the incremental profit after the split off point. The question is whether the additional incremental revenues earned justify the additional incremental processing costs incurred to produce the finished products.