[needcoffee]

This is a question from Becker B1 on joint product costs. Are the exam questions long like this one? And it’s not just the question that is long. The solution goes thru several steps to get to the answer.

Sonimad Sawmill manufactures two lumber products from a joint milling process. The two products developed are mine support braces (MSB) and unseasoned commercial building lumber (CBL). A standard production run incurs joint costs of $300,000 and results in 60,000 units of MSB and 90,000 units of CBL. Each MSB sells for $2 per unit, each CBL sells for $4 per unit.

Continuing with the previous data, assume the commercial building lumber is not marketable at split-off but must be further planed and sized at a cost of $200,000 per production run. During this process, 10,000 units are unavoidably lost; these spoiled units have no discernable value. The remaining units of commercial building lumber are saleable at $10.00 per unit. The mine support braces, although saleable immediately at the split-off point, are coated with a tar-like preservative that costs $100,000 per production run. The braces are then sold for $5 each.

Using the net realizable value (NRV) basis, the completed cost assigned to each unit of commercial building lumber would be:

a. $2.92

b. $5.625

c. $5.3125

d. Some amount other than those given above.

Thanks.

"It's choice not chance that determines your destiny".

[How many letters do you need]

No. Not one question was even a quarter that length or complexity when I took BEC. Most of the time if they are trying to gage your understanding of a very complex topic or calculation they will give you pieces and ask you to solve for a small part. I don't even think the scenarios on the WC were that long! I didn't use Becker but from what I read Becker MCQs are crazy overkill for BEC. Do a little searching and something should pop up

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[Anonymous]

@needcoffee, I too struggle sometimes with the Becker questions as they are just so long and wordy. For BEC I decided to get the Ninja MCQ and today has been my first day with it. I really like it and recommend you check it out. It's a great complimentary balance to Becker and is different enough that you get exposure to more material. There have been questions that my Becker text doesn't even talk about. I have heard that BEC will have questions that people had never seen so hopefully this will make up for that. I think there is still a promo this weekend so it'd only cost $40.

I will say this: I feel like the Ninja questions are giving me more of what would be representative on the test. However, there is value in the longer Becker questions sometimes. If you can work that long question it means you can work anything. So I am going to try and find a balance between the two materials this last week I have before my exam.

[knicks92]

im also the type of person who gets thrown off by lengthy questions. What I did for the exam was that when i came across questions that just appeared lengthy or intimidating, i would just flag them and breeze through all the other questions that i thought i could answer easily. Than i would go back and try the ones i skipped.

I found this to be helpful because than, there would be no pressure of not finishing the section because of wasting time on one question and most of the time, many of the intimidating questions were actually fine realistically. No matter what, you are going to run into things in BEC that are just gonna throw you off. Just stay positive throughout the test and try to make smart guesses. Dont waste too much time and dwell on one question. I think at most, i flagged 6 questions on the last window and the others i flagged about 3 each.

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B: 88
A: 77
R: 89
F:

[sweetmoon]

I did not get any such long questions in the exam, that being said, the easiest way to work through problems like this is to do reverse engineering from the given answers and work the equation backwards.

FAR : 71, 83
AUD : 73,88
BEC : 87
REG : sweet 82 and DONE !!

[Skynet]

*Walks in Thread*

*sees long BEC question*

*Slaps face to make sure not a Nightmare*

“NOPE it reals*

*Walks out of Thread*

Wakes up Screaming to BEC nightmare during he middle of the night. Thanks alot needcoffee.

AUD - 90
BEC - 78
FAR - 84
REG - 87

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REG : 87
FAR : 84
AUD : 90

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[needcoffee]

Thanks for all the replies! I was initially going to take BEC during busy season, but after logging in weeks after weeks of 80 hours, I gave up on it. I am taking the exam next week instead. I have Becker and Wiley test banks as well, and they are completely different, so I am curious what the exam will actually be like. I was averaging in the 80% during my first time thru Wiley, but more like 60-70% with Becker. Hopefully this will translate into a passing score!

@knicks92, thanks for your advice, I will definitely keep that in mind.

@Skynet, I'm having BEC nightmares now trying to pass this exam. Congrats on your passing score!

"It's choice not chance that determines your destiny".

[Jenny]

I skipped most of the questions like this in B1 of Becker, because well, who wants to see lengthy questions?!?!

Anyway, I'm going back now and doing them and they suck, so many multiple steps. I really hope these are not on the exam. I can figure out how to do the steps, but putting them together to get the final answer is just so confusing 🙁

AUD - 76
BEC - 86
FAR - 76
REG - 76

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[Zyx]

I had one joint cost question, but not complicated like this one. I had one question that was kinda long and I skipped because I spent too much time on MCQ and I had to move on to WC, otherwise I would not have had enough time to finish WC.

AUD - 77
BEC - 81
FAR - 80
REG - 77

zyx

REG: 77 x2
BEC: 81 x3
FAR: 68 retake 10/1
AUD: 8/27

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