Prepare an answer sheet with column headings

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Listed below are costs found in various organizations.

  • 1. Property taxes, factory.
  • 2. Boxes used for packaging detergent produced by the company.
  • 3. Salespersons' commissions.
  • 4. Supervisor's salary, factory.
  • 5. Depreciation, executive autos.
  • 6. Wages of workers assembling computers.
  • 7. Insurance, finished goods warehouses.
  • 8. Lubricants for production equipment.
  • 9. Advertising costs.
  • 10. Microchips used in producing calculators.
  • 11. Shipping costs on merchandise sold.
  • 12. Magazine subscriptions, factory lunchroom.
  • 13. Thread in a garment factory.
  • 14. Billing costs.
  • 15. Executive life insurance.
  • 16. Ink used in textbook production.
  • 17. Fringe benefits, assembly-line workers.
  • 18. Yarn used in sweater production.
  • 19. Wages of receptionist, executive offices.

Required:

Prepare an answer sheet with column headings as shown below. For each cost item, indicate whether it would be variable or fixed with respect to the number of units produced and sold; and then whether it would be a selling cost, an administrative cost, or a manufacturing cost. If it is a manufacturing cost, indicate whether it would typically be treated as a direct cost or an indirect cost with respect to units of product. Three sample answers are provided for illustration.

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Various costs associated with the operation of factories are given below:

  • 1. Electricity to run production equipment.
  • 2. Rent on a factory building.
  • 3. Cloth used to make drapes.
  • 4. Production superintendent's salary.
  • 5. Wages of laborers assembling a product.
  • 6. Depreciation of air purification equipment used to make furniture.
  • 7. Janitorial salaries.
  • 8. Peaches used in canning fruit.
  • 9. Lubricants for production equipment.
  • 10. Sugar used in soft-drink production.
  • 11. Property taxes on the factory.
  • 12. Wages of workers painting a product.
  • 13. Depreciation on cafeteria equipment.
  • 14. Insurance on a building used in producing helicopters.
  • 15. Cost of rotor blades used in producing helicopters.
  • Required: Classify each cost as either variable or fixed with respect to the number of units produced and sold. Also indicate whether each cost would typically be treated as a direct cost or an indirect cost with respect to units of product. Prepare your answer sheet as shown below:

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Staci Valek began dabbling in pottery several years ago as a hobby. Her work is quite creative, and it has been so popular with friends and others that she has decided to quit her job with an aerospace company and manufacture pottery full time. The salary from Staci's aerospace job is $3,800 per month.

Staci will rent a small building near her home to use as a place for manufacturing the pottery. The rent will be $500 per month. She estimates that the cost of clay and glaze will be $2 for each finished piece of pottery. She will hire workers to produce the pottery at a labor rate of $8 per pot. To sell her pots, Staci feels that she must advertise heavily in the local area. An advertising agency states that it will handle all advertising for a fee of $600 per month. Staci's brother will sell the pots; he will be paid a commission of $4 for each pot sold. Equipment needed to manufacture the pots will be rented at a cost of $300 per month.

Staci has already paid the legal and filing fees associated with incorporating her business in the state. These fees amounted to $500. A small room has been located in a tourist area that Staci will use as a sales office. The rent will be $250 per month. A phone installed in the room for taking orders will cost $40 per month. In addition, a recording device will be attached to the phone for taking after-hours messages.

Staci has some money in savings that is earning interest of $1,200 per year. These savings will be withdrawn and used to get the business going. For the time being, Staci does not intend to draw any salary from the new company.

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Required:

  • 1. Prepare an answer sheet with the following column headings:

List the different costs associated with the new company down the extreme left column (under Name of Cost). Then place an X under each heading that helps to describe the type of cost involved. There may be X's under several column headings for a single cost. (That is, a cost may be a fixed cost, a period cost, and a sunk cost; you would place an X under each of these column headings opposite the cost.) Under the Variable Cost column, list only those costs that would be variable with respect to the number of units of pottery that are produced and sold.

  • 2. All of the costs you have listed above, except one, would be differential costs between the alternatives of Staci producing pottery or staying with the aerospace company. Which cost is not differential? Explain.

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