Question

A severe cyclone causes substantial damage to a brick manufacturing company's production equipment. As a result, the company spends a sum of $25,000 to repair the equipment. Given this information, the sum of $25,000 that the company spends is its _____.

A. implicit cost.
B. direct cost.
C. explicit cost.
D. indirect cost.

Answer 1

The correct answer is D. indirect cost.

Step-by-step explanation:

That is, indirect costs are those costs that the company incurs during the exercise of its activity, whose allocation is more complicated, since they are not directly related to production.

In the above case, it is shown that the environmental effect produced by the cyclone is not directly related to the production of the bricks, so it is considered that it corresponds to indirect costs of the operation.