operating costs
Ongoing business expenditures
Operating costs are the ongoing expenses required to run a business or maintain an asset.
These include rent, utilities, wages, supplies, and routine maintenance—the regular outlays that keep operations functioning.
Distinguished from capital expenditures, which are one-time purchases of major assets.
The restaurant's operating costs doubled after they expanded their hours.
- overheadLocated directly above
- expenditureMoney paid out
- utilitiesEssential infrastructure services
- keeping the lights onMaintaining minimum viability
- expensesMoney spent on things
salaries · supplies · maintenance · insurance · repairs · burn rate · in the red · belt tightening · taxation · depreciation · amortization · taxes · rent · bottom line · financial planning · number crunching · margins · breakeven
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- business financeaccounting, balance sheet, revenue stream, profit margin, budget
- financial termswealth, asset, currency, balance sheet, audit
- school expenditurestuition, salaries, textbooks, supplies, utilities
- accountingbookkeeping, ledger, balance sheet, general ledger, accounts payable
- financialsincome, profit, earnings, net income, net profit
operating costscapital expenditures
Spending on lasting assets
capital investments · fixed assets · long-term investments · infrastructure investments · capital improvements
operating costsoperating income
Earnings from core operations
revenue · income · earnings · operating profit · receipts
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