Define joint cost. Should joint costs be considered in the decision to sell or further process the product? Explain your answer
What will be an ideal response
A joint cost is a cost of production that yields multiple products. Joint costs are sunk costs because they represent past costs that cannot be changed regardless of what future action the company takes. For this reason, joint costs are not relevant to the decision.
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