Indirect Costs: Expenses, such as fringe benefits, overhead, utilities, rent or equipment, that have been incurred for the purpose of common general activities and cannot be identified or charged directly to the production of a specific project.

 

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Indirect Costs: Expenses, such as fringe benefits, overhead, utilities, rent or equipment, that have been incurred for the purpose of common general activities and cannot be identified or charged directly t . . . View Full Definition

Price Impact Costs: Related: Market impact costs

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

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

Market Impact Costs: The result of a bid/ask spread and a dealer's price concession. Also called price impact costs.

Market Timing Costs: Costs that arise from price movement of a stock during a transaction period but attributable to other activity in the stock.

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.