Problem: Red Sauce Canning Company processes tomatoes into catsup, tomato juice, and canned tomatoes. During the summer of 20X5, the joint costs of processing the tomatoes were $420,000. There was no beginning or ending inventories for the summer. Production and sales value information for the summer is as follows:
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Product
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Cases
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Sales Value
at Splitoff Point
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Separable Costs
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Selling Price
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Catsup
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100,000
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$6 per case
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$3.00 per case
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$28 per case
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Juice
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150,000
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8 per case
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5.00 per case
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25 per case
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Canned
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200,000
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5 per case
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2.50 per case
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10 per case
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Required:
Determine the amount allocated to each product if the estimated net realizable value method is used, and compute the cost per case for each product.