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Stranded Costs, Takings, and the Law and Economics of Implicit Contracts -3-. billion, exceeding the value of the equity in electric utilities today.4 The second aspect is that. stranded cost recovery is widely regarded as a zero-sum game.
Standard Cost. A standard cost is an estimated expense that normally occurs during the production of a product or performance of a service. In other words, this is theoretically the amount of money a company will have to spend to produce a product or perform a service under normal conditions. Standard costs are sometimes referred to as preset costs because they are estimated based on statistics and management s experience. Basically, management calculates how much each step in the production process should cost based on the market value of goods, median wages paid per employee, and average utility rates.