Exercise 9-3 Deciding Whether to Drop or Retain a Segment (LO1 - CC3) Thalassines Kataskeves, S.A., of Greece, makes marine equipment. The company has been experlencing losses on its bilge pump product line for several years. The most recent quarterly income statement for the bilge pump product line follows: "Common costs allocated on the basis of machine-hours. Tommon costs allocated on the basis of sales dollars. I he currency in Greece is the euro, denoted by . I Ihe discontinuance of the bilge pump product line would not atfect sales of other product lines and would have no noticeable effect on the company's total general factory overhead or total purchasing department expenses. Required: Compute the net advantage or disadvantage if the bilge pump product line be discontinued? (Negative amount should be indicated by a minus sign.) Should the bilge pump product line be discontinued? Yes No