COMMON COST - The cost of resources employed jointly in the production of two or more outputs and the cost cannot be directly traced to any one of those outputs.
When the output can be identified, that's what makes it a common cost.
mnli hypothesis: When the output can be identified, that's what makes it a common cost. premise: COMMON COST - The cost of resources employed jointly in the production of two or more outputs and the cost cannot be directly traced to any one of those outputs.