The brital company processes unprocessed milk to produce two products, butter cream and condensed milk. the following information was collected for the month of june: direct materials processed: 28,000 gallons production: butter cream 12,500 gallons condensed milk 15,500 gallons sales: butter cream 12,000 gallons condensed milk 15,000 gallons sales: butter cream $2.5 per gallon condensed milk $5.5 per gallon separable costs in total: butter cream $13,500 condensed milk $33,700 the costs of purchasing the of unprocessed milk and processing it up to the splitoff point to yield a total of 28,000 gallons of saleable product was $46,000. the company uses constant gross-margin percentage nrv method to allocate the joint costs of production. if separable costs of butter cream was 16,000 and constant gross margin was 25%, what would have been the allocated joint costs of condensed milk?

David burdick is the ceo of acme bubblegum, a successful public company. as one of the cofounders of the company, burdick has enjoyed speaking and writing about the success of acme bubblegum for several years. typically, he speaks at conferences or directly to the press, but recently, he has been blogging about his firm anonymously. specifically, he defended a recent advertising campaign that was unpopular among consumers and pointedly attacked one of acme bubblegum’s competitors. burdick deeply enjoys his anonymous blogging and believes that none of his readers actually know that he works for acme bubblegum.should burdick be allowed to praise his company’s performance anonymously online? should he be allowed to attack his competitors without disclosing his relationship with the company? how would you feel if the ceo of a company at which you shopped was secretly writing criticisms of his or her competition? how would you feel if you knew a writer for your favorite blog was actually closely involved in a company that the blog discussed? 1. define the ethical issue? 2. who are the primary stakeholders? 3. what are the possible alternatives? 4. how could you evaluate the ethical implications of the alternative actions (use appropriate decision rules)? 5. what action would you recommend and why?