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Joint Product Allocation Methods: Lecture Overview

This lecture provides an overview of joint products, by-products, and their cost allocation methods. It covers topics such as main products, sales value at splitoff, net realizable value, and physical measures.

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Joint Product Allocation Methods: Lecture Overview

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  1. Lecture 27

  2. Lecture Overview • Main Products and Byproducts • Joint Cost Terminology • By-Product Costs: Characteristics • By-products cost allocation • Joint Production Process • By-Products • Joint Cost Allocation Methods • Criteria to Guide Cost-Allocation Decisions • Criteria of cost allocation-issues • Joint-Cost Basics

  3. Splitoff Point • The splitoff point is the juncture in the production process where one or more products in a joint-cost setting become separately identifiable. • Separable costs are all costs (manufacturing, marketing, distribution, etc.) incurred beyond the splitoff point that are assignable to one or more individual products.

  4. Joint Products and By-products • Joint products have relatively high sales value at the splitoff point. • Main product is the result of a joint production process that yields only one product with a relatively high sales value. • By-products are incidental products resulting from the processing of another product.

  5. Joint Products and By-products • A by-product has a relatively low sales value compared with the sales value of a joint or main product. • Revenue from byproducts generally reduces the costs of the joint products. • Some outputs of the joint production process have zero sales value. • No journal entries are made to record the processing of such outputs with zero sales value.

  6. Joint Products and By-products Main Products Joint Products By-products High Low Sales Value

  7. Joint Products and By-products • The classification of products as main, joint, or by-product depends on its sales value. • Products can change from by-products to joint products when their relative sales values increases and changes from joint products to by-products when their relative sales value decreases.

  8. Why Allocate Joint Products? • The purposes for allocating joint costs to products include: • Inventory costing • Important for financial accounting purposes, reports to income tax authorities, and internal reporting purposes. • Cost reimbursement contracts • Cost allocation is required for cost reimbursement purposes under contracts when only a portion of a business’ products or services is sold or delivered to a single customer.

  9. Why Allocate Joint Products? • Insurance settlements • Require cost allocation when damage claims made by businesses with joint products, main products, or by-products are based on cost information. • Rate regulation • The allocation of joint costs is required if one or more of the jointly produced products or services are subject to price regulation.

  10. Why Allocate Joint Products? • Litigation • Joint cost allocation is important in litigation involving one or more joint products.

  11. Joint Cost Allocation Methods • Market-Based – allocate using market-derived data (dollars): • Sales value at splitoff • Net Realizable Value (NRV) • Constant Gross-Margin percentage NRV • Physical Measures – allocate using tangible attributes of the products, such as pounds, gallons, barrels, etc • The average unit cost method • The weighted average method

  12. Allocating Joint Costs • Approach 1: • The sales value at splitoff method • The estimated net realizable value (NRV) method • The constant gross-margin percentage NRV method

  13. Allocating Joint Costs • Company incurred $200,000 of joint costs to produce the following: • Product A: 10,000 units, 20,000 pounds • Product B: 10,500 units, 48,000 pounds • Product C: 11,500 units, 12,000 pounds

  14. Sales Value at Splitoff Method • Allocates joint costs to joint products on the basis of the relative total sales value at the splitoff point. • All outputs must have sales values at this point to use the method.

  15. Sales Value at Splitoff Method • Assume the following sales values per unit: A: $10.00, B: $30.00, and C: $20.00 • What is the total sales value at splitoff point? • Product A: 10,000 × $10.00 = $100,000 • Product B: 10,500 × $30.00 = 315,000 • Product C: 11,500 × $20.00 = 230,000 • Total $645,000

  16. Sales Value at Splitoff Method • How much joint costs are allocated to each product? • A: $100,000/$645,000 × $200,000 = $ 31,008 • B: $315,000/$645,000 × $200,000 = 97,674 • C: $230,000/$645,000 × $200,000 = 71,318 • Total $200,000 15.5% 48.8% 35.7%

  17. Sales Value at Splitoff Method • What are the joint production costs per unit? • Product A: $31,008 ÷ 10,000 = $3.10 • Product B: $97,674 ÷ 10,500 = $9.30 • Product C: $71,318 ÷ 11,500 = $6.20

  18. Sales Value at Splitoff Method • Assume all of the units produced of B and C were sold (no further processing). • 2,500 units of A (25%) remain in inventory. • What is the gross margin percentage of each product?

  19. Sales Value at Splitoff Method • Product A • Revenues: 7,500 units × $10.00 $75,000 • Cost of goods sold: • Joint product costs $31,008 • Less ending inventory 7,752* 23,256 • *$31,008 × 25% • Gross margin $51,744

  20. Sales Value at Splitoff Method • Prod. A: $75,000 – $ 23,256 = $51,744; $51,744 ÷ $75,000 = 69% • Prod. B: ($315,000 – $97,674) ÷ $315,000 = 69% • Prod. C: ($230,000 – $71,318) ÷ $230,000 = 69% The sales value at split off method produces an identical gross margin percentage for each product.

  21. Lecture Overview • SplitoffPoint • Joint Products and By-products • Why Allocate Joint Products? • Approaches to Allocating Joint Costs • Sales Value at Splitoff Method

  22. End of Lecture 27

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