fixed cost
Noun
Meaning
a periodic charge that does not vary with business volume (as insurance or rent or mortgage payments etc.)
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Melvin & Boyes, (2002) p. 222. Because fixed cost must be paid regardless of whether a firm operates they should not be considered in deciding whether to produce or shutdown.
Smith 1995, p. 33. The large fixed cost of these centrales made them almost exclusively accessible to American companies with large capital stocks.
However, the firm still has to pay fixed cost.
But the state had to pay the fixed cost to the private thermal plants.
If private patients are charged for diagnostic tests, it should be at a fixed cost with no additional charges.
The senior leadership team continues to promise that fixed cost leverage is just around the corner, but has broken too many promises on this and other fronts.