Red Sauce Canning Company Processes Tomatoes into Catsup, Tomato Juice

question 5

Essay

Red Sauce Canning Company processes tomatoes into catsup, tomato juice, and canned tomatoes. During the summer of 2017, 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:

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.

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