Q. What is Cost-benefit?

Cost-benefit The cost-benefit consideration engrosses deciding whether the benefits of including optional information in financial statements exceed the costs of providing the information. Users are apt to think information is cost free since they incur none of the costs of providing the information. Preparers apprehend that providing information is costly. The benefits of using information must exceed the costs of providing it. The measurement of benefits is imprecise which makes application of this modifying convention difficult in practice.