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What is Cost ? (Definition and Meaning of Cost)

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Question added by Khaja Moinuddin , Group Assistant Financial Controller , Confidential
Date Posted: 2014/02/26
Rashad Moursi
by Rashad Moursi , Finance Director & Business Development, International Business Transformer Owners Repr. - Hotels , Investment and financial

Cost is an amount that has to be paid or given up in order to get somthing. In business, all things monetary evaluation, all expenses are costs.

محمد جلولي
by محمد جلولي , Head of Tender control department , Gafsa Phosphate Company (CPG)

A cost is the measure of the expenditure of economic agents associated with an event or action of an economic nature, and generally expressed as a prize or monetary value. 

Different costs can be calculated. Each type of cost is defined by three characteristics: the date on which it was established, the object in question, the content included.

Mohamamd Faisal
by Mohamamd Faisal , Head of Corporate Service , AKON International co ltd

an amount that has to be paid or spent to buy or obtain something.

Aziz ur Rehman ur Rehman
by Aziz ur Rehman ur Rehman , Assistant Manager Finance , Central Power Puchasing Agency (CPPA)

Cost and meaning of Cost

Something of value, usually an amount of money, given up in exchange for something else, usually goods or services.

 

A cost is a sacrifice of resources.

 

Muhammad Kamran Bukhari
by Muhammad Kamran Bukhari , Manager Finance , OIC Ministerial Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation(COMSTECH)

Cost is price of something

Divyesh Patel
by Divyesh Patel , Assistant Professional Officer- Treasury , City Of Cape Town

Definition: In business and accounting, cost is the monetary value that a company has spent in order to produce something. Cost denotes the amount of money that a company spents on the creation or production of goods or services. It does not include the mark-up for profit.

 

In accounting, the term cost refers to the monetary value of expenditures for raw materials, equipment, supplies, services, labor, products, etc. It is an amount that is recorded as an expense in bookkeeping records.

 

In business, cost is usually a monetary valuation of (1) effort, (2) material, (3) resources, (4) time and utilities consumed, (5) risks incurred, and (6) opportunity forgone in production and delivery of a good or service.

 

All expenses are costs, but not all costs (such as those incurred in acquisition of an income-generating asset) are expenses.

 

 

 

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