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Categories of Cost
Cost can be divided into following six categories:
Variable Costs
Fixed Costs
Semi-Variable or Mixed Costs
Total Production Costs
Direct Costs
Indirect Costs (Overhead)
Variable Costs: Variable costs are those costs that change with number of units produced or volume of production (Jackson, Sawyers and Jenkins, 2009). These are also called as the product costs as they vary with each unit of production. Some of the variable costs that changes with the production level include materials, labor and shipping.
Fixed Costs: Fixed cost is the costs that is not affected by the volume of production and remains the same, regardless of the number of units produced. It is also called as period costs which is the name derived by its ability of being occurring over a particular period. Examples include: Rent, business licenses etc.
Semi-Variable or Mixed Manufacturing Costs: Semi- Variable or a mixed cost has components of both fixes as well as...
The fixed cost part of the cost is paid irrespective of the level of production or activity carried out in the entity (Drury, 2008) while the variable part varies. A simple example is of a telephone bill in which some charges are fixed while remaining varies depending upon the service used.
4. Total Production Costs: Total Production Costs is the total cost used for making or producing a product or service. It includes direct as well as indirect costs that are incurred during the production.
5. Direct Costs: Direct cost is the cost that can directly be related to each unit produced. In most of the cases, direct cost is also the material cost, for instance materials and labor used. Advertising expense can also be a direct costs but it is not variable.
6. Indirect Costs: Indirect costs are the costs that cannot be related to any product. These are the overhead costs for doing business; for example marketing, accounting, rent of the place etc.
Incremental Cost Analysis
Incremental analysis is…
References
Drury, C. (2008). Management and Cost Accounting, Seventh Edition, South Western Cengage Learning.
Jackson, S., Sawyers, R. And Jenkins, J. (2009). Managerial Accounting, A Focus on Ethical Decision
Making, Fifth Edition, South Western Cengage Learning.
Yoe, C. (2012). Principles of Risk Analysis, Decision Making under Uncertainty. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group.
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