Cost Classifications and Estimation

Cost classification may be defined like 'the arrangement of cost items in a logical sequence having concern to their nature and reason to be fulfilled'. The term cost should be qualified while in use in order to its precise meaning is established in a particular condition; conversely, cost refers to the amount of resources such have been diverted from other sacrificed or uses so like to achieve the needed objective. Although the term is utilized to refer to various aspects of cost, depending upon the base of argument such one is approaching the matter from. Various bases are utilized in classifying costs, hence giving us several types of costs.