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