Opportunity Costs Definition | Becker

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Opportunity Costs

 

  1. Opportunity costs are costs that would have been saved or the profit that would have been earned if another decision alternative had been selected. Accounting records do not record opportunity costs. The value of the forgone alternatives.

 

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