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Understanding Costs

COSTS
What society, government or individuals incur to run a program, or to produce something that they desire the value of money that has been used up to produce something while Price cost plus markup

According to the Behavior of Cost:


TOTAL COST Measure of all the costs entailed in producing a given level of output. Measure of aggregate or combined resource requirements of a particular scale of activity Sum of all the cost incurred during production of a certain activity, program or commodit

AVERAGE COST Measure of the total cost of production associated with each unit of output

Total Cost Quantity of Output

Examples:
Vaccination Program

If total cost = Php 1,000,000 Total Vaccinate = 10, 000 children Average Cost = Php 100 per child immunized

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