Operating Cost

  

What does it cost you to operate your business? If you breed wolves for a living, you have the cost of the land you're leasing. Fishing hooks and materials and bait. Labor from a few dozen workers. Vaccines. Maybe some leashes. A wolf condo. Not much else.

Together, those are your company's operating costs: the costs it incurs to do what it does.

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