Costs

Cost is the value of money that has been used up to produce something or deliver a service, and hence is not available for use anymore. In business, the cost may be one of acquisition, in which case the amount of money expended to acquire it is counted as cost. In this case, money is the input that is gone in order to acquire the thing. This acquisition cost may be the sum of the cost of production as incurred by the original producer, and further costs of transaction as incurred by the acquirer over and above the price paid to the producer. Usually, the price also includes a mark-up for profi

when presented with multiple opportunities, the cost of making a certain choice in comparison to its alternatives

business expenses that are not dependent on the level of goods or services produced by the business

factor in economics

systematic approach to estimating the strengths and weaknesses of alternatives

costs that change in proportion to the good or service that a business produces

cost incurred in making an economic exchange

systematic set of procedures for recording and reporting measurements of the cost of manufacturing goods and performing services in the aggregate and in detail

rate that a company is expected to pay on average to all its security holders to finance its assets; firm’s cost of capital

cost that has already been incurred and cannot be recovered

cost to maintain a standard of living

factor in economics

factor in economics

comparison of costs and outcomes of different courses of action

interchangeable part that is kept in an inventory and used for the repair or replacement of failed units

method of cost analysis

total economic cost of production

original monetary value of an item

form of contracting arrangement

carrying value of goods sold during a particular period

thumb|500px|right|Isocost v. Isoquant Graph. Each line segment is an isocost line representing one particular level of total input costs, denoted TC in the graph and C in the article's text. PL is the unit price of labor (w in the text) and PK is the unit price of physical capital (r in the text).

the price an advertiser has to pay for 1000 ad impressions on a single web page

class of organisations or businesses who heavily rely on buildings, production facilities, or physical stores for operations

Value representing unit price

costs that are not directly accountable to a cost object

total cost of ownership over the life of an asset

form of cost accounting

cost accounting method utilizing efficiencies

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unexpected incurred costs in excess of budgeted amounts

overview of cost in the field of economics

process used by companies to reduce their costs and increase their profits

graph of the costs of production as a function of total quantity produced

form of financial analysis used to guide procurement decisions

Major share in Cost of a Product

Khozraschyot (; short for , 'economic accounting') was an attempt to introduce capitalist concepts of profit and profit center into the planned economy of the Soviet Union. Khozraschyot introduced a certain degree of independence of enterprises (which continued to be state-owned and subject to state control) and allowed for self-management and self-financing within the framework of prices set by the Soviet government.

statistic used in cost-effectiveness analysis to summarise the cost-effectiveness of a health care intervention

an economic term

accounting cost concept

sum of costs of all resources consumed in the process of making a product

in finance

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non-fiction work by Paul A. Samuelson

economic term

all the costs consumers pay to own and operate a car, including fixed and variable costs

all costs associated with the searching activity conducted by a prospective seller and buyer in a market

economic measure of business efficiency

metric used in economics

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