Explain the accounting cost concept in brief

Question

Explain the accounting cost concept in brief.

Answer 1

Accounting cost: These costs represent all such expenditures that are incurred by a firm upon factors of production. Therefore, accounting costs are explicit costs. Briefly, all items of expenses appearing upon the debit side of trading, loss and profit account of a firm shows the accounting cost. As all the expenses on production are in money terms, the accounting costs are nominal costs or money costs.