The company is very small and its assembly shop and retail sales store are housed in a Gig Harbor, Washington, boathouse. Below are listed some of the costs that are incurred at the company. Required:
For each cost, indicate whether it would most likely be classified as direct labor, direct materials, manufacturing overhead, selling, or an administrative cost. 1. The wages of employees who build the sailboats. 2. The cost of advertising in the local newspapers. 3. The cost of an aluminum mast installed in a sailboat. 4. The wages of the assembly shop’s supervisor. 5. Rent on the boathouse. 6. The wages of the company’s bookkeeper. 7. Sales commissions paid to the company’s salespeople. 8. Depreciation on power tools.
EXERCISE 2–3 Fixed and Variable Cost Behavior [LO3] Koffee Express operates a number of espresso coffee stands in busy suburban malls. The fixed weekly expense of a coffee stand is $1,100 and the variable cost per cup of coffee served is $0.26.
Required:
1. Fill in the following table with your estimates of total costs and average cost per cup of coffee at the indicated levels of activity for a coffee stand. Round off the cost of a cup of coffee to the nearest tenth of a cent. Cups of Coffee Served in a Week 1 ,800 1 ,900 2,000
Fixed cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Variable cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Total cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Average cost per cup of coffee served . . . .
2. Does the average cost per cup of coffee served increase, decrease, or remain the same as the number of cups of coffee served in a week increases? Explain.
EXERCISE 2–6 Identifying Direct and