Great Sweets Candy Company Produces Various Types of Candies

Great Sweets Candy Company produces various types of candies.Several candies could be sold at the split-off point or processed further and sold in a different form after further processing.The candies are produced in a joint processing operation with $500,000 of joint processing costs monthly,which are allocated based on pounds produced.Information concerning this process for a recent month appears below: The joint processing costs in this operation:

A) should be allocated to products to determine whether they are sold at split-off or processed further.
B) should be ignored in determining whether to sell at split-off or process further.
C) should be ignored in making all product decisions.
D) are never included in product cost,as they are misleading to all management decisions.