In: Accounting
Classifying Costs
The following is a list of costs that were incurred in the production and sale of large commercial airplanes:
Classify each cost as either a product cost or a period cost. Indicate whether each product cost is a direct materials cost, a direct labor cost, or a factory overhead cost. Indicate whether each period cost is a selling expense or an administrative expense.
| Costs | Classification |
| a. Salary of chief compliance officer of company | |
| b. Power used by painting equipment | |
| c. Instrument panel installed in the airplane cockpit | |
| d. Annual bonus paid to the chief operating officer of the company | |
| e. Turbo-charged airplane engine | |
| f. Interior trim material used throughout the airplane cabin | |
| g. Cost of normal scrap from production of airplane body | |
| h. Hourly wages of employees that assemble the airplane | |
| i. Salary of the marketing department personnel | |
| j. Cost of paving the headquarters employee parking lot | |
| k. Cost of electrical wiring throughout the airplane | |
| l. Cost of electronic guidance system installed in the airplane cockpit | |
| m. Salary of plant manager | |
| n. Cost of miniature replicas of the airplane used to promote and market the airplane | |
| o. Human resources department costs for the year | |
| p. Metal used for producing the airplane body | |
| q. Annual fee to a celebrity to promote the aircraft | |
| r. Hydraulic pumps used in the airplane’s flight control system | |
| s. Yearly cost of the maintenance contract for robotic equipment | |
| t. Prebuilt leather seats installed in the first-class cabin | |
| u. Depreciation on factory equipment | |
| v. Special advertising campaign in Aviation World magazine | |
| w. Oil to lubricate factory equipment | |
| x. Masks for use by painters in painting the airplane body | |
| y. Decals for cockpit door, the cost of which is immaterial to the cost of the final product | |
| z. Salary of chief financial officer |
a. Period cost - adminstrative expense
b. Product cost - direct material cost
c. Product cost - factory overheads
d. Period cost - administrative expense
e. Product cost - factory overheads
f. Product cost - direct material cost
g. Product cost - factory overheads
h. Product cost - direct labour cost
i. Period cost - selling cost
j. Period cost - administrative expense
k. Product cost - direct material cost
l. Period cost - administrative expense
m. Product cost - direct labour cost
n. Product cost - factory overheads
o. Period cost - administrative expense
p. Period cost - direct material cost
q. Period cost - selling cost
r. Product cost - direct material cost
s. Period cost - administrative expense
t. Product cost - direct material cost
u. Product cost - factory overheads
v. Period cost - selling cost
w. Product cost - factory overheads
x. Product cost - direct material cost
y. Product cost - direct material cost
z. Period cost - administrative expense