explain variable costs, fixed costs, average variablecosts, average fixed costs, and average total costs

Contemporary Marketing
18th Edition
ISBN:9780357033777
Author:Louis E. Boone, David L. Kurtz
Publisher:Louis E. Boone, David L. Kurtz
Chapter13: Pricing Concepts
Section13.4: Fixed And Variable Costs
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All the businesses need some inputs to generate outputs. There are majorly two types of inputs, namely- factor inputs and non factor inputs. Factor inputs are the inputs used in the business in the form of land, labor, capital and entrepreneurship. The other non-factor inputs are the raw materials that that company used for the production of goods. Cost can be defined as the expenditure than a company incurs in the purchase of these factors of production and the cost incurred for the process used to covert these factors of production into finished products.

The cost can also be classifies on the nature of work into selling costs and production costs. The cost that a company incurs while doing all the necessary activities to sell a product come under the selling costs. These activities can be advertisement, promotion, or delivery of products. And production costs are the costs incurred in the manufacturing process.

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