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What is cost incurred?
Sunday, October 17, 2010 at 5:31AM Cost incurred is an accrual accounting concept, where an entity records a cost for which it has become liable.
For example, a manufacturing operation uses a considerable amount of electricity during the month of January, after which the local power company bills it $25,000 for the electricity usage, which the company receives in February and pays in March. The company incurs the cost of the electricity in January, so it should record the expense in January.
If the company had been using the cash basis of accounting, the cost incurred concept would not apply, and it would not record the cost until it paid the invoice in March.
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