ACCT 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Earnings Before Interest And Taxes, Sport Utility Vehicle, Income Statement

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Cost classifications for assigning costs to cost objects. A cost object is anything for which cost data are desired. Direct cost: a cost that can be conveniently and easily traced to a particular cost object. Examples: the direct costs of a ford suv would include the cost of the steering wheel purchased by. A cost would be considered indirect for one of two reasons: either it is impractical or it is impossible to trace the cost to the cost object. A common cost is a particular type of indirect cost. It is the cost incurred to support a number of costing objects but cannot be traced to them individually. Examples: manufacturing overhead, such as the factory managers" salary at a multi-product plant, is an indirect cost of any one product, general hospital administration costs are indirect costs of the radiology lab. Differential costs: the cost that differs between two alternatives.

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