The Unlawful â This distinguishes murder from killings that are done within the boundaries of law, such as capital punishment, justified self-defence, or the killing of enemy combatants by lawful combatants as well as causing collateral damage to non-combatants during a war.
A cost object is often a product or department for which costs are accumulated or measured. For example, a product is the cost object for direct materials, direct labor and manufacturing overhead.
As another example, if the cost object is a sales region, prime costs may also include the cost of maintaining distribution warehouses in that region. A key focus of a company's product design staff is to reduce the prime cost per unit sold, so that the business can realize a larger profit.