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Term | Definition |
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administrative costs | expenses an organization incurs that are not directly tied to a specific function such as manufacturing, production or sale |
benefits | advantages or payments employees receive in addition to their wages (e.g., sick time, holiday pay, health insurance) |
cost of production | the total amount of money spent on costs of materials, labor, taxes, etc., to manufacture economic goods and services |
cost of sales | the total amount of money a business has paid for the product (good or service) it has sold. |
costs | the expenses involved with manufacturing, promoting, and distributing a product |
professional fees | prices charged by individuals specifically trained in specific fields of arts an sciences, such as doctors, architects, lawyers, and accountants |
sales and marketing costs | all reasonable costs and expenses (including labor) that are attributable to distribution, sale, promotion, and marketing of a product (including pre-launch activities), calculated on fully burdened basis, including Allocable Overhead attributable thereto |
start-up costs | all of the expenses involved in setting up a new business or introducing a new product to |
technology costs | expenses associated with acquisition or development, implementation deployment, and maintenance of technology assets, including depreciation of R&D equipment and amortization of know how |
wages | money payments for labor on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis |
operating expenses | the ongoing, da-to-day expenses of running a business that are not directly related to production |
fixed costs | operating costs that do not decrease or increase with changes in production |
variable costs | operating costs that fluctuate with changed in production |
semi-variable costs | expenses that are fixed until the company reaches a certain level of production, then become variable; also called mixed costs or semi-fixed costs |
gross profic | a company's revenue after subtracting the costs of the products it has sold |
break-even point | the point at which a business's total sales equal total expenses; the business has not yet made a profit but has not incurred any losses |