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  2. Cost breakdown analysis - Wikipedia

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    Overhead is an ongoing business expense which cannot directly be allocated to a particular cost unit, which is why they belong to the so-called hidden costs. [7] Despite not directly creating profits, they do still contribute to the ongoing business activities. [8] [9] Overhead can, for instance, be in the form of company cars. Buying a company ...

  3. Pre-determined overhead rate - Wikipedia

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    Common activity bases used in the calculation include direct labor costs, direct labor hours, or machine hours. This is related to an activity rate which is a similar calculation used in Activity-based costing. A pre-determined overhead rate is normally the term when using a single, plant-wide base to calculate and apply overhead.

  4. Cost estimate - Wikipedia

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    Other costs and pricing are added, such as overhead, profit, sales or use taxes, payment and performance bonds, escalation, and contingency. [31] The costs which are applied to the line-item quantities may come from a cost book (either internal or external) or cost database. For construction contractors or construction managers it is important ...

  5. Operating cost - Wikipedia

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    Examples of overhead costs include: payment of rent on the office space a business occupies; cost of electricity for the office lights; some office personnel wages; Non-overhead costs are incremental such as the cost of raw materials used in the goods a business sells. Operating Cost is calculated by Cost of goods sold + Operating Expenses.

  6. Total absorption costing - Wikipedia

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    Total absorption costing (TAC) is a method of Accounting cost which entails the full cost of manufacturing or providing a service. TAC includes not just the costs of materials and labour, but also of all manufacturing overheads (whether ‘fixed’ or ‘variable’). The cost of each cost center can be direct or indirect.

  7. Profit model - Wikipedia

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    The profit model is the linear, deterministic algebraic model used implicitly by most cost accountants.Starting with, profit equals sales minus costs, it provides a structure for modeling cost elements such as materials, losses, multi-products, learning, depreciation etc.

  8. Standard cost accounting - Wikipedia

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    For example: if the railway coach company normally produced 40 coaches per month, and the fixed costs were still $1000/month, then each coach could be said to incur an Operating Cost/overhead of $25 =($1000 / 40). Adding this to the variable costs of $300 per coach produced a full cost of $325 per coach.

  9. Activity-based costing - Wikipedia

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    Like manufacturing industries, financial institutions have diverse products and customers, which can cause cross-product, cross-customer subsidies. Since personnel expenses represent the largest single component of non-interest expense in financial institutions, these costs must also be attributed more accurately to products and customers.