Pleasant Hills Properties is developing a golf course subdivision that includes 225 home lots; 100 lots are golf course lots and will sell for $100,000 each; 125 are street frontage lots and will sell for $70,000. The developer acquired the land for $1,850,000 and spent another $1,450,000 on street and utilities improvement. Compute the amount of joint cost to be allocated to the street frontage lots using value basis.

This is a question about allocation based on how much the street frontage will be valued in future. That value will then be allocated to the joint cost to see how much to apportion to Street Frontage now.

The total value of the Street Frontage after development is,

= 125 lots * $70,000

= $8,750,000

The total value of Golf lots are,

= 100 lots * $100,000

= $10,000,000

Adding them up,

= 10,000,000 + 8,750,000

= $18,750,000

This is the total amount of the company could make and therefore the lot's value.

Company incurred the following costs.

= 1,850,000 * 1,450,000

= $3,300,000

The amount of joint costs to be allocated to Street Frontage will be,

= 8,750,000/ 18,750,000 * 3,300,000

= $1,540,000

The amount to allocate to Street Frontage based on the total value of the lot is $1,540,000.