Audio commentary. An audio commentary is an additional audio track, usually digital, consisting of a lecture or comments by one or more speakers, that plays in real time with a video. Commentaries can be serious or entertaining in nature, and can add information which otherwise would not be disclosed to audience members.
absorption costing. a method of inventory costing in which all variable manufacturing costs and all fixed manufacturing costs are included as inventoriable costs.
Variable costs change according to the quantity of goods produced; fixed costs are independent of the quantity of goods being produced. Differentiate fixed costs and variable costs. 1  Total cost is the sum of fixed and variable costs.  Variable costs change according to the quantity of a good or service being produced. The amount of materials and labor that is needed for to make a good increases in direct proportion to the number of goods produced.