Finance:Cost object
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Short description: Something to which costs are assigned
A cost object is a term used primarily in cost accounting to describe something to which costs are assigned. Common examples of cost objects are: product lines, geographic territories, customers, departments or anything else for which management would like to quantify cost.
Cost object is anything for which a separate measurement of cost is required. Cost object may be a product, a service, a project, etc.
The use of cost objects is common within activity based costing and Grenzplankostenrechnung systems.
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