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''Cost and management accounting.''


A trading arrangement under which goods or services are exchanged for other goods or services, rather than for money.
Period costs are costs that are incurred with the passing of time, rather than with the production of services or products.


Examples include administration overheads, marketing overheads and finance overheads.


2.


To negotiate, especially in a situation of mutual exchanges or concessions.
== See also ==
* [[Direct costs]]
* [[Direct production cost]]
* [[Indirect costs]]
* [[Management accounting]]
* [[Overheads]]
* [[Production overheads]]


 
[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
== See also ==
[[Category:The_business_context]]
* [[Countertrade]]
* [[Trade]]

Revision as of 17:24, 10 February 2019

Cost and management accounting.

Period costs are costs that are incurred with the passing of time, rather than with the production of services or products.

Examples include administration overheads, marketing overheads and finance overheads.


See also