Direct costs: costs which can be clearly identified with each unit of production and can be allocated to a cost centre.
Indirect costs: costs which cannot be identified with a unit of production or allocated accurately to a cost centre also known as overhead costs.
Fixed costs: costs that do not vary with output in the short run.
Variable costs: costs that vary as output changes, such as the direct cost of materials a used in making a washing machine or the electricity used to cook fast-food meal.
Semi-variable costs: costs that have both a fixed and variable cost element.
Total costs = Fixed costs + Variable costs
Revenue: income received from the sale of a product.
Total revenue: total income from the sale of all units of the product = Quantity x Price.
Revenue stream: income that an organization gets from a particular activity.