Relevant Costs and Decision-Making
The relevance of costs will depend upon the purpose for that they are being utilized. Relevance is related to future decisions. The relevance of costs in decision-making is concerned to where they are ignorable in relation to the decision made or whether they are not avoidable; in that case they will stay irrespective of the decision taken. Therefore relevant costs in decision-making are said to be incremental and future costs relating to the decision to be made. If they will result in a difference then costs are incremental as like an example of avoidable costs result in reduced costs if they are ignored. Future costs are those costs that have not now been incurred that are they are not committed costs or sunk costs.