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Landed Costs: The total costs involved when importing goods. They include buying, shipping, insuring and associated taxes.

Search Costs: Costs associated with locating a counterparty to a trade, including explicit costs (such as advertising) and implicit costs (such as the value of time). Related: Information costs.

Standard Costs: Investment approach that advocates a firm should accept or reject a project by comparing it with securities in the same risk class.

Round-Trip Transactions Costs: Costs of completing a transaction, including commissions, market impact costs, and taxes.

Opportunity Costs: The difference in the performance of an actual investment and a desired investment adjusted for fixed costs and execution costs. When not all desired trades can be implemented. Most valuable . . . View Full Definition

Non-Recurring Adoption Costs: One time adoption expenses, which may be at least partially reimbursed by states up to a maximum amount to families adopting children with special needs. Allowable expenses for this reimburs . . . View Full Definition

Standard Costs Plus Variances: A target or average cost that can be used either to value inventory or as a basis of comparison with actual costs. Standard costs can often be used to calculate cost of sales, in which case . . . View Full Definition

Price Impact Costs: Related: Market impact costs

Sunk Costs: Method of accelerated depreciation.

Up Front Costs: These are costs or fees which are charged to the borrower at or before closing of the mortgage loan, such as loan application fees, appraisal fees, points, broker fees, credit report fees, r . . . View Full Definition