What is the cost that has already been incurred and which Cannot be recovered?

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What is the cost that has already been incurred and which Cannot be recovered?

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sunk cost

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Noun[edit]

sunk cost (plural sunk costs)

  1. (economics) A cost that has already been incurred and which cannot be recovered to any significant degree.

Translations[edit]

already incurred costs

  • Chinese: Mandarin: 沉沒成本 (zh), 沉没成本 (zh) (chénmò chéngběn)
  • Czech: utopené náklady m pl
  • Finnish: upotettu kustannus
  • German: versunkene Kosten pl
  • Hungarian: elsüllyedt költség (hu)
  • Japanese: 埋没費用
  • Korean: 매몰비용 (maemolbiyong)
  • Russian: невозвра́тная затра́та f (nevozvrátnaja zatráta)
  • Serbo-Croatian: nepovratan trošak
  • Spanish: costo hundido m

Anagrams[edit]

  • unstocks

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1. (sunk capital) Expenditure, usually on capital items, that once having been incurred can be included in a company's books of account as an asset, although this value cannot be recovered.

2. In management accounting, expenditure that has already been incurred and that cannot be recovered. Such costs are not relevant to any subsequent spending decisions. An example of a sunk cost is the original cost of a machine when the decision is whether or not to replace this machine. Compare relevant cost.



Sunk costs are costs that have already been incurred and which cannot be recovered. They should not be considered when making decisions.

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What is the cost that has already been incurred and which Cannot be recovered?

What is the cost that has already been incurred and which Cannot be recovered?

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Which is the cost that has already been incurred and that can not be changed by any decision made now or in the future?

Sunk costs are the costs which have been created by a decision that was made in the past and cannot be changed by any decisions that will be made in the future. A sunk cost cannot be recovered and are considered irrelevant for future decision making.

What is the cost incurred in the past that Cannot be changed by any future action?

Sunk costs—costs incurred in the past that cannot be changed by future decisions—are not differential costs because they cannot be changed by future decisions.

Have already been incurred and Cannot be changed now or in the future?

Sunk cost is any cost that has already been incurred and that cannot be changed by any decision made now or in the future.

What is sunk cost theory?

The Sunk Cost Fallacy describes our tendency to follow through on an endeavor if we have already invested time, effort, or money into it, whether or not the current costs outweigh the benefits.