ACCT 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Income Statement, Business Process, Fixed Cost
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Product costs: all costs incurred to make a product, including direct materials, direct labor and manufacturing overhead. Those costs represent the value of the inventory on the balance sheet. Note that they are expensed through cost of goods sold in the period the related products are sold, not in the period those costs are incurred---matching principle. They are expensed on the income statement in the period in which they are incurred. Which of the following costs would be considered a period rather than a product cost in a manufacturing company: manufacturing equipment depreciation, property taxes on corporate headquarters, direct materials costs, electrical costs to light the production facility. Variable cost: a cost that varies, in total, in direct proportion to changes in the level of activity. A good example of a variable cost is direct materials. Please note that a variable cost is constant if expressed on a per unit basis.