implicit cost

Definition

The costs associated with an action's tradeoff. It is related to explicit costs, which represent the actual costs of an activity, and represents a cost that is not recorded but instead implied. For example, an employee could take a vacation and travel. The explicit costs would include travel expenses, the cost of a hotel room, and costs related to entertainment. The implicit costs relate to the tradeoff, namely the wages that the employee could have earned if the vacation was not taken.

As another example, not paying rent on the self-owned property (called implicit rent) is an implicit cost, because rent is a tax deductible expense but implicit rent is not. Similarly, implicit cost of liquid assets or stockholders' (shareholders') capital is the maximum interest that would be earned on them as a fixed deposit or as an investment in a mutual fund (unit trust). Implicit costs must be added to actual cash outlays to establish a true estimate of the cost of production or of running a business. Also called imputed cost, implied cost, or notional cost.

Use 'implicit cost' in a Sentence

The implicit cost would be too high for us to handle, so I told them that the deal was off and to go on about their day.

The implicit cost was to be considered as there were many options and alternatives to consider in making the decision.

Sometimes there may be an implicit cost to an action but the gain may outweigh it so much that you just have to pay.

单词	implicit cost
释义	implicit cost Definition The costs associated with an action's tradeoff. It is related to explicit costs, which represent the actual costs of an activity, and represents a cost that is not recorded but instead implied. For example, an employee could take a vacation and travel. The explicit costs would include travel expenses, the cost of a hotel room, and costs related to entertainment. The implicit costs relate to the tradeoff, namely the wages that the employee could have earned if the vacation was not taken. As another example, not paying rent on the self-owned property (called implicit rent) is an implicit cost, because rent is a tax deductible expense but implicit rent is not. Similarly, implicit cost of liquid assets or stockholders' (shareholders') capital is the maximum interest that would be earned on them as a fixed deposit or as an investment in a mutual fund (unit trust). Implicit costs must be added to actual cash outlays to establish a true estimate of the cost of production or of running a business. Also called imputed cost, implied cost, or notional cost. Use 'implicit cost' in a Sentence The implicit cost would be too high for us to handle, so I told them that the deal was off and to go on about their day. The implicit cost was to be considered as there were many options and alternatives to consider in making the decision. Sometimes there may be an implicit cost to an action but the gain may outweigh it so much that you just have to pay.
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