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Startup Costs
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Administrative Cost | expenses that a business pays for that are not directly tied to a specific function |
| Benefits | Advantages or payments employees receive in addition to their wages |
| Cost of Production | the total amount of money spent on cost of materials, labor, taxes to manufacture economic goods and services |
| Cost of Sales | The amount of money a business has paid for the product it has sold |
| Costs | the expenses involved with manufacuring, promoting, and distributing a product |
| Professional Fees | Prices charged by individuals specially trained in specific fields of arts and sciences |
| Sales and Marketing Costs | all reasonable costs and expenses that are attributable to the description, sale, promotion, and marketing of a product |
| Start-up Costs | all of the new expenses involved in starting a new business or intuoducing a new product |
| Technology Costs | expenses associated with aquisition or development, implementation, development, and maintenance of technology assets |
| Wages | money payments for labor on an hourly, daily, or monthly basis |
| Operating Expenses | the ongoing, day-to-day expenses of running a business that isn't related to production |
| Fixed Costs | operating costs that do not increase or decrease with changes in production |
| Variable Costs | operating costs that flucuate with changes in production |
| Semi-variable Costs | expenses that are fixed until the company reaches a certain level of production, then become variable |
| Gross Profit | a company's revenue after subtracting the costs of the products it has sold |
| Break-even Point | the point at which a business's total sales equal total expenses |