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  2. Fixed cost - Wikipedia

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    Along with variable costs, fixed costs make up one of the two components of total cost: total cost is equal to fixed costs plus variable costs. In accounting and economics, fixed costs, also known as indirect costs or overhead costs, are business expenses that are not dependent on the level of goods or services produced by the business. They ...

  3. What Is a Fixed Cost? - AOL

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    Here’s an example. The ABC Company makes widgets. The company has fixed costs of $10,000 per month. Each widget costs the company $3.00 to make, and it sells each widget for $5.00.

  4. Average fixed cost - Wikipedia

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    In economics, average fixed cost (AFC) is the fixed costs of production (FC) divided by the quantity (Q) of output produced. Fixed costs are those costs that must be incurred in fixed quantity regardless of the level of output produced. =. Average fixed cost is the fixed cost per unit of output.

  5. Economic order quantity - Wikipedia

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    There is a fixed cost for each order placed, regardless of the quantity of items ordered; an order is assumed to contain only one type of inventory item. There is also a cost for each unit held in storage, commonly known as holding cost, sometimes expressed as a percentage of the purchase cost of the item. Although the EOQ formulation is ...

  6. What Is a Fixed Cost? - AOL

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    In a business, there are two types of costs: fixed and variable. It's important to understand the difference between these two types of costs, which costs fit into each category, and how to account...

  7. Direct costs - Wikipedia

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    The equivalent nomenclature in economics is specific cost. [2] Direct costs may be either fixed or variable , but typically comprise materials, labour, and specific expenses such as, e.g. a royalty payment to a patent holder for a given production process, [ 3 ] all, directly attributable to a cost object.

  8. Economics terminology that differs from common usage

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    In common usage, as in accounting usage, cost typically does not refer to implicit costs and instead only refers to direct monetary costs. The economics term profit relies on the economic meaning of the term for cost. While in common usage, profit refers to earnings minus accounting cost, economists mean earnings minus economic cost or ...

  9. Natural monopoly - Wikipedia

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    Two different types of cost are important in microeconomics: marginal cost and fixed cost.The marginal cost is the cost to the company of serving one more customer. In an industry where a natural monopoly does not exist, the vast majority of industries, the marginal cost decreases with economies of scale, then increases as the company has growing pains (overworking its employees, bureaucracy ...