period costs are always expensed on the income statement in the period in which
T or F labor costs that can be specifically traced to a product are indirect labor costs
T or F all of a company's depreciation, property taxes and insurance premiums are considered manufacturing overhead
a) period cost do not flow through the inventory accounts
a) period costs are included as part of the cost of goods
When you acquire a long-term asset, you can include directly attributable costs to the initial measurement of its cost.
Here, we do not take the paid vacation time into account for allocation purposes. It means that a compensation for paid vacation will be allocated to the cost of a ship. The reason is that a company is obliged to provide this vacation to its employees and a vacation is simply another cost of worked hours.
Hmmm, a good argument, but the truth is that the CFO needed an insurance policy to get a loan and not to acquire an asset. In other words, that company could have acquired a plant without a loan, with a cash payment and in such a case, no insurance policy would be necessary. Operating lease expenses for land.
As opposed to that, the paragraph 19 of IAS 16 lists examples of costs that are not costs of an item of PPE and therefore, cannot be capitalized:
period costs are always expensed on the income statement in the period in which
T or F labor costs that can be specifically traced to a product are indirect labor costs
T or F all of a company's depreciation, property taxes and insurance premiums are considered manufacturing overhead
a) period cost do not flow through the inventory accounts
a) period costs are included as part of the cost of goods