0 the price that it costs to make a product, without a profit being added:
1 the amount of money that is spent to produce goods or services before any profit is added for the manufacturer or producer, or the price that a store, etc. pays for goods that it is going to sell:
Because cost price calculations were available for the period 1887 to 1897, it could be seen that they were remarkably stable at that time.
Additional copies, not exceeding 200, may be had at cost price : these should be ordered when the final proof is returned.
Of interest, national regulations were required already at that time to reduce the large variability among hospitals in the exact method of cost price calculation.
Prices of informal care were based on shadow prices for unpaid work (meaning a standardized cost price based on general hourly wages).
Additional copies, not exceeding 200, may be had at cost price: these should be ordered when the final proof is returned.
In addition to supplying not-for-profit enterprises, including consumer co-operatives, these opened retail outlets of their own, selling direct to the public at cost price.
As explained, the tariff replaced the "true" cost price in the course of time.
We also want to make a healthy profit, say a 100% mark-up on the cost price.