Answer:
a. Advertising expenses are usually viewed as period costs.
b. An example of factory overhead is plant depreciation.
c. Direct materials costs and direct labor costs are called conversion costs.
d. Implementing automatic factory robotics equipment normally decreases the factory overhead component of product costs.
e. Materials that are an integral part of the manufactured product are classified as direct materials.
f. An oil refinery would normally use a process cost accounting system.
g. The balance sheet of a manufacturer would include an account for work in process inventory.
h. The wages of an assembly worker are normally considered a product cost.