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How would you classify costs?

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Question ajoutée par Farah Abla , Financial Control Officer , Arab Bank plc
Date de publication: 2015/04/07
Utilisateur supprimé
par Utilisateur supprimé

There are many classifications of costs :

1- Manufacturing versus Nonmanufacturing .

2- Product versus Period cost .

3- Direct vs indirect .

Explicit cost -4 .

Implicit costs -5 .

Opportunity costs -6 .

Carrying costs -7 .

Sunk costs -8 .

Discretionary costs -9 .

Engineered costs -10 .

Marginal costs -11 .

Committed costs -12 .

These are not all the costs classifications .

Utilisateur supprimé
par Utilisateur supprimé

you can classify costs by

- fixed or variable

- behavior and purpose

- function

- variable and semi variable

- nature

fixed variable and semi variable

and this will take long time to explain

thanx miss farah 

 

BIBIN VARGHESE
par BIBIN VARGHESE , Senior Accountant , LONDON CONSULTING MEDICAL CENTER

By their Behavior 

By their location

By their function

By the person responsible for their control.

By their type.

By their traceability

 

Ahmed kandil
par Ahmed kandil , Cost Controller , Battour Holding Cpompany

Agree with all previous answers

Md. Moshiur Rahman Sumon
par Md. Moshiur Rahman Sumon , Assistant General Manager( Corporate Finance & Head of Internal Audit) , Progressive Life Insurance Company Limited

There are various classification or types of costing , but the basic principles underlying all these class or types are the same. The basic principles are to collect and analyse the expenditure according to the elements of costs and to determine the cost for each cost centre or cost unit.

Any way costs may be classified 

A) Fixed Cost

B) Variable Cost

C) Semi-Variable or Semi Fixed cost

 

Joel Ayroso
par Joel Ayroso , Project Sr. Cost Budget Manager/Consultant , Saudi Aramco-SMP (EPCM)

Make a spreadsheet and get the Estimate cost, Actual Cost, Budget Cost  you will the variance and you will see the forecast monthly or quarterly.