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== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Contribution analysis]]
* [[Contribution analysis]]
* [[Opportunity cost]]
* [[Project appraisal]]
* [[Project appraisal]]
* [[Sunk cost fallacy]]
* [[Sunk cost fallacy]]


[[Category:Corporate_finance]]
[[Category:Corporate_finance]]

Revision as of 14:47, 31 March 2020

Project appraisal.

Expenditure which has already taken place, or to which an organisation is already irrevocably committed, are sunk costs.

Sunk costs are irrelevant to project appraisal: "Sunk costs don't count."


A common mistake in project appraisal and analysis is the inclusion - in error - of sunk costs in the analysis.


See also