Chapter 8, Problem 7Q

Which can be considered a product cost in a manufacturing company? - corporate tax -sales commissions - property rate -equipment depreciation

Describe how the income statement of a manufacturing company differs from the incomestatement of a merchandising company

Manufacturing firms must calculate their cost of goods sold based on how much they manufacture and how much it costs them to manufacture those goods. This requires manufacturing firms to prepare an additional statement before they can prepare their income statement. This additional statement is the Cost of Goods Manufactured statement. Once the cost of goods manufactured is calculated, the cost is then incorporated into the manufacturing firm’s income statement to calculate its cost of goods sold. One thing manufacturing firms must consider in their cost of goods manufactured is that, at any given time, they have products at varying levels of production: some are finished and others are still process. The cost of goods manufactured statement measures the cost of the goods actually finished during the period, whether or not they were started during that period. True / False Even though the income statements for the merchandising firm and the manufacturing firm appear very similar at…