An amount that has to be paid or given up in order to get something. In business, cost is usually a monetary valuation of (1) effort, (2) material, (3) resources, (4) time and utilities consumed, (5) risks incurred, and (6) opportunity forgone in production and delivery of a good or service.
Also asked, what is the cost classification?
The separation of expenses into different categories. For example, cost classification in economics might involve categories of fixed, variable, opportunity, production and sunk costs. On the other hand, accounting costs can be classified as either direct or indirect for a business.
What are direct costs and indirect costs?
A direct cost is a price that can be completely attributed to the production of specific goods or services. Some costs, such as depreciation or administrative expenses, are more difficult to assign to a specific product and therefore, are considered to be indirect costs.