"historical cost" meaning in English

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Noun

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 Categories (topical): Accounting Synonyms: acquisition cost Translations (Translations): alkuperäinen hankintameno (Finnish), coût historique [masculine] (French), coût d’acquisition [masculine] (French), valeur d’acquisition [feminine] (French)
    Sense id: en-historical_cost-en-noun-3V9kVE9e Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: accounting, business, finance

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