The decision with respect to the profitability of an individual joint product should

A.

Be based on total profitability of all joint products.

B.

Ignore joint costs when attempting to maximize the profitability of a single joint product.

C.

Ignore all joint costs with respect to both decisions involving either individual products or joint products as a whole.

D.

Attempt to maximize the profitability of each joint product after including individual joint costs.