What is the financial advantage for the company

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a. Dock Corporation makes two products from a common input. Joint processing costs up to the split-off point total $33,600 a year. The company allocates these costs to the joint products on the basis of their total sales values at the split-off point. Each product may be sold at the split-off point or processed further. Data concerning these products appear below:

	Product X	Product Y	Total
Allocated joint processing costs	16,800	16,800	33,600
Sales value at split-off point	$24,000	$24,000	$48,000
Costs of further processing	$15,000	$18,700	$33,700
Sales value after further processing	$35,500	$45,100	$80,600

What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) for the company of processing Product Y beyond the split-off point?

b. Mae Refiners, Inc., processes sugar cane that it purchases from farmers. Sugar cane is processed in batches. A batch of sugar cane costs $60 to buy from farmers and $13 to crush in the company's plant. Two intermediate products, cane fiber and cane juice, emerge from the crushing process. The cane fiber can be sold as is for $29 or processed further for $13 to make the end product industrial fiber that is sold for $61. The cane juice can be sold as is for $40 or processed further for $28 to make the end product molasses that is sold for $67.

What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) for the company from processing one batch of sugar cane into the end products industrial fiber and molasses rather than not processing that batch at all?

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