fordelbare kostnader

English translation: attributable costs

13:46 Mar 12, 2013
Norwegian to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Finance (general)
Norwegian term or phrase: fordelbare kostnader
What kind of costs are these please?
They are from the following sentence: Alle reelle kostnader som ikke er fordelbare.
eodd
Local time: 07:22
English translation:attributable costs
Explanation:
kostnader som ikke er fordelbare = non-attributable costs

Ref:
"Attributable and non-attributable costs are used mainly in cost responsibility determination"
http://books.google.pl/books?id=CtoDMPDLae4C&pg=PA160&lpg=PA...
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Bjørnar Magnussen
Local time: 08:22
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Thank you very much Bjørnar.
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3 +2attributable costs
Bjørnar Magnussen
3indirect costs
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attributable costs


Explanation:
kostnader som ikke er fordelbare = non-attributable costs

Ref:
"Attributable and non-attributable costs are used mainly in cost responsibility determination"
http://books.google.pl/books?id=CtoDMPDLae4C&pg=PA160&lpg=PA...

Bjørnar Magnussen
Local time: 08:22
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Native speaker of: Native in NorwegianNorwegian
PRO pts in category: 169
Grading comment
Thank you very much Bjørnar.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Charlesp
17 mins

agree  Sven Petersson
2 hrs

agree  rajagopalan sampatkumar
2 hrs

disagree  Norskpro: Your reference says "Non-attributable costs are also known as common costs". This seems opposite to what you are saying.
20 hrs
  -> I am not able to follow your logic here.
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indirect costs


Explanation:
"Indirect costs are costs used by multiple activities, and which cannot therefore be assigned to specific products, services, geographical regions, customers, or other cost objects. Instead, indirect costs are needed to operate the business as a whole."

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Note added at 3 hrs (2013-03-12 17:09:21 GMT)
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http://www.kunnskapssenteret.com/articles/3083/1/Direkte--og...

"Indirekte kostnader kan ikke tilbakeføres til bestemte produkter. Dette er f.eks. faste kostander som f.eks. kalkulatoriske kostnader, renter, husleie, indirekte tilvirkningskostnader o.l. Med andre ord «felleskostnader» for den samlede produksjonen i perioden. Indirekte kostnader må derfor fordeles på de enkelte ordrene og produktene/tjenestene."

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Note added at 20 hrs (2013-03-13 10:29:38 GMT)
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For a more specific term "Distributed costs" may be more appropriate.

"Cost that cannot be attributed to a specific task and is, therefore, distributed across several tasks or functions. Also called distributable cost."

Read more: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/distributed-cos...


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirect_costs
    Reference: http://www.accountingtools.com/questions-and-answers/what-ar...
Norskpro
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