Great Sweets Candy Company Produces Various Types of Candies

question 64

Multiple Choice

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 net advantage (disadvantage) of processing Sweet Meats further is:

• A)a $25,000 disadvantage to process further.
• B)a $32,143 advantage to process further.
• C)a $25,000 advantage to process further.
• D)a $282,143 disadvantage to process further.

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