(Prepared from a situation suggested by Professor John W. Hardy.) Lone Star Meat Packers is a major processor of beef and other meat products. The company has a large amount of T-bone steak on hand, and it is trying to decide whether to sell the T-bone steaks as they are initially cut or to process them further into filet mignon and the New York cut.
If the T-bone steaks are sold as initially cut, the company figures that a 1-pound T-bone steak would yield the following profit:
Selling price ($2.40 per pound) | $ | 2.40 |
Less joint costs incurred up to the split-off point where T-bone steak can be identified as a separate product |
1.60 | |
Profit per pound | $ | 0.80 |
If the company were to further process the T-bone steaks, then cutting one side of a T-bone steak provides the filet mignon and cutting the other side provides the New York cut. One 16-ounce T-bone steak cut in this way will yield one 6-ounce filet mignon and one 8-ounce New York cut; the remaining ounces are waste. It costs $0.14 to further process one T-bone steak into the filet mignon and New York cuts. The filet mignon can be sold for $4.00 per pound, and the New York cut can be sold for $3.70 per pound.
Required:
1. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of further processing one T-bone steak into filet mignon and New York cut steaks?
2. Would you recommend that the T-bone steaks be sold as initially cut or processed further?
Per 16-Ounce T-Bone | |
Sales from further processing: | |
Selling price of one filet
mignon (6 ounce x $ 4 per pound / 16 ) |
$ 1.50 |
Selling price of one New York
cut (8 ounce x $ 3.70 per pound / 16 ) |
$ 1.85 |
Total Sales from further processing | $ 3.35 |
Less : Selling Price | ($ 2.40) |
Incremental revenue from further processing | $ 0.95 |
Less : Cost of further processing | ($ 0.14) |
Financial advantage of further Processing | $ 0.81 per unit |
2) | |
T-bone steaks should be processed further as there is a Financial advantage |
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