What is the difference between cost and price?
Some people use cost and price interchangeably. Others use the term cost to mean one component of a product’s selling price. Even the same person might use the terms differently.
For example, in standard costing the price variance of the raw materials refers to the difference between the standard cost and the actual cost of the materials.
In other situations we define a product’s selling price as: product costs + expenses + profit.
As these two examples indicate, there can be different meanings for the terms cost and price.
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cost price of an article is arrived at after deduction of all direct expense while price is the actual price of an article
what’s accounting system?
Cost is the price that include direct cost realted to the object that your buying like installation, frieght in ex. While price is the acutal price of the object like a contract price.
Cost is the price of the object including other cost directly related to the object like frieght-in, installation ex.. While the price is the acutal contract price of the object like the contract price.
Cost is the purchasing amount
while price is salling amount
Price is the final amount that customer has to pay this includes profit of the seller
Whereas cost is the total amount spent on the final product and it does not include profit of the seller
My View:
Cost: It is the amount which has been accepted to produce revue or acquire assets.
Price: It is the amount at which we sell (Credit / Cash) to the customer including the profit margin as told by Mr. Raj.
I think cost means the overall amount you spent for a certain kind you would sell.
EX: I am the business owner and the amount I spent to build the business is 1200p.
Raw: 400p
Capital: 450p
Labour: 350
target PROFIT: 100p
raw+capital+labour= “COST” from th biz
raw+capital+labour+profit= “PRICE” for consumers
customer will buy your product at 1300p because you wana have 100p as your profit.
Conclusion~~~
1200 = cost “business”
1300 = price “consumer”
god i hope i could make it more clear than this..sorry guys got no time see yahh….
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For a manufacturing company,
price includes the the cost of manufacturing the product plus mark up..
Price=cost+markup
Cost is the resources foregone or
sacrificed to produce and sell
finished goods
cost is generated to make the products or services available.
while price is the market value of product or services.
at the end,margin is made on that transactiom
The cost of a product is all the expenses made to make the product available to the market. Price consist of the actual price and profit on the product sold.