"historical cost" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: historical costs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} historical cost (plural historical costs)
  1. (accounting) The original nominal monetary value of an economic item; the value at which an item was acquired by a company and was entered in its books. Wikipedia link: historical cost Synonyms: acquisition cost Translations (original value): 原始成本 (Chinese Mandarin), alkuperäinen hankintameno (Finnish), coût historique [masculine] (French), coût d’acquisition [masculine] (French), valeur d’acquisition [feminine] (French)

Inflected forms

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