Use the Following Information for the Next 2 Questions

question 88

Multiple Choice

Use the following information for the next 2 questions.
Major Foods, Inc. produces a cereal from oat grain. The company buys unprocessed oats for $400 per ton. It costs $60 per ton to send the oats through a processor, which produces 1,900 pounds of pure oats and 100 pounds of oat shells. The oat shells are ground and packaged at a cost of $100 per hundred pounds. They are sold to a poultry feed company for $3 per pound. The pure oats are cooked and packaged into 4-pound containers at a cost of $350. The packaged oats are sold for $2 per 4-pound container.
-If Major uses the net realizable value method, the joint costs allocated to the oats is

• A) $345
• B) $110
• C) $350
• D) $115

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Definitions:

Special Orders

Orders that are outside the normal scope of products or services offered by a business, often requiring special pricing, terms, or conditions.

Absorption Costing

An accounting method that includes all of the direct and indirect manufacturing costs in the cost of a product.

Product Cost

The total expenses incurred to create a product, including direct labor, materials, and overhead costs.

Variable Costing

An accounting method that includes only variable production costs—direct materials, direct labor, and variable manufacturing overhead—in the cost of goods sold, treating fixed manufacturing costs as period costs.