E$2-4$ Suppose that you have been given a summer job at Fairwings Avionics, a company

that manufactures sophisticated radar sets for commercial aircraft. The company, which is

privately owned, has approached a bank for a loan to help finance its tremendous growth.

The bank requires financial statements before approving such a loan. You have been asked

to help prepare the financial statements and were given the following list of costs:

The cost of the memory chips used in a radar set.

Factory heating costs.

Factory equipment maintenance costs.

Training costs for new administrative employees.

The cost of the solder that is used in assembling the radar sets.

The travel costs of the company's salespersons.

Wages and salaries of factory security personnel.

The cost of air$-$conditioning executive offices.

Wages and salaries in the department that handles billing customers.

Depreciation on the equipment in the fitness room used by factory workers.

Telephone expenses incurred by factory management.

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The costs of shipping completed radar sets to customers.

The wages of the workers who assemble the radar sets.

The president's salary.

Health insurance premiums for factory personnel.

Classify the above costs as either product $($inventoriable$)$ costs or period $($noninventoriable$)$

costs for purposes of preparing the financial statements for the bank.