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What is the main difference between the cost and the charge?

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Question added by Nadjib RABAHI , Freelancer , My own account
Date Posted: 2016/03/03
Balarami Reddy Chintakuntla
by Balarami Reddy Chintakuntla , Chief Financial Officer (CFO) , Ajel Ltd

cost is for current month and charge is prepaid or write off 

Frank Mwansa
by Frank Mwansa , ACCOUNTING LECTURER , FREELANCER

 1.A cost is a resource sacrificed or forgone to achieve a specific objectives. In costing , a cost is defined as an item of expenditure.

2.The charge is a demand( amount) as a price from someone for a service rendered or goods supplied. It is a price asked for goods or services.

manseer muhammed ali
by manseer muhammed ali , Accountant General , Royal Lighting L.L.C & Royal Furnishing LLC

The literature on economic efficiency in providing hospital services has been growing recently. Often such literature examines the costs of providing services at varying volumes of treatments per location per year. However, instead of measuring cost directly, these studies use patient bills (charges) aa a proxy for cost. Charges may bear little resemblance to economic cost, and use of charges as a proxy for economic cost may lead researchers to draw unwarranted conclusions about economic efficiency. Because of the differences between economic cost, accounting cost, and charges to the patient, actual resource consumption should be used as a measure of cost.

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