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Chapter 1





                           Classification of costs





               2.1  Production costs

               The total costs of an organisation can be categorised as follows:




                                                    Total costs





                                                                                  Non-
                                       Production                             production
                                           costs
                                                                                  costs


                                                                             Sales,
                    Direct costs           Indirect costs                    administration
                                                                             and distribution
                                                                             costs
                   Costs directly          Can’t be directly
                   involved in             attributed to
                   production and          each unit, such
                   attributable to         as rent,
                   each unit of            depreciation and
                   production              supervisors

                                           salaries
               Some of these costs may be fixed and some may be variable.

























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