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Crane Industrial Products Inc. (TIPI) is a diversified industrial-cleaner processing company. The company's Dargan plant produces two products: a table cleaner and a floor cleaner from a common set of chemical inputs (CDG). Each week, 855,000 ounces of chemical input are processed at a cost of $207,000 into 570,000 ounces of floor cleaner and 285,000 ounces of table cleaner. The floor cleaner has no market value until it is converted into a polish with the trade name FloorShine. The additional processing costs for this conversion amount to $240,000.

FloorShine sells at $18 per 30-ounce bottle. The table cleaner can be sold for $17 per 25-ounce bottle. However, the table cleaner can be converted into two other products by adding 285,000 ounces of another compound (TCP) to the 285,000 ounces of table cleaner. This joint process will yield 285,000 ounces each of table stain remover (TSR) and table polish (TP). The additional processing costs for this process amount to $100,000. Both table products can be sold for $14 per 25-ounce bottle.

The company decided not to process the table cleaner into TSR and TP based on the following analysis.

                                     Process FurtherTable                    CleanerTable Stain       Remover (TSR)Table                Polish (TP)Total

Production in ounces           285,000                                    285,000                     285,000

Revenues                         $193,800                                $159,600                    $159,600                                      $319,200

Costs:   CDG costs             69,000                                      51,750                         51,750                                    103,500

TCP costs                        050,000                                     50,000                      100,000

Total costs                       69,000                                      101,750                     101,750                                      203,500

Weekly gross profit            $124,800                                    $57,850                     $57,850                                      $115,700

1. If table cleaner is not processed further, it is allocated 1/3 of the $207,000 of CDG cost, which is equal to 1/3 of the total physical output.
2. If table cleaner is processed further, total physical output is 1,140,000 ounces. TSR and TP combined account for 50% of the total physical output and are each allocated 25% of the CDG cost.

Question 1: Determine if management made the correct decision to not process the table cleaner further by doing the following.

Problem (1) Calculate the company's total weekly gross profit assuming the table cleaner is not processed further.

• Total weekly gross profit$
• Enter the total weekly gross profit in dollars

Problem (2) Calculate the company's total weekly gross profit assuming the table cleaner is processed further.

• Total weekly gross profit$
• Enter the total weekly gross profit in dollars

Problem (3) Compare the resulting net incomes and comment on management's decision.