Whois & Analysis for budgetyourtrip.com

In production, research, retail, and accounting, a cost is the value of money that has been used up to produce something, and hence is not available for use anymore.

In business, the cost may be one of acquisition, in which case the amount of money expended to acquire it is counted as cost.

In this case, money is the input that is gone in order to acquire the thing.

This acquisition cost may be the sum of the cost of production as incurred by the original producer, and further costs of transaction as incurred by the acquirer over and above the price paid to the producer.

Usually, the price also includes a mark-up for profit over the cost of production.

The word widget is a placeholder name for an object or, more specifically, a mechanical or other manufactured device.

It is an abstract unit of production.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "An indefinite name for a gadget or mechanical contrivance, esp.

a small manufactured item" and dates this use back to 1931.

It states that the origin is "perhaps U.S." and for etymology suggests that it may be a variant of gadget.

However, the term also appears earlier in George S.

Kaufman and Moss Hart's 1924 play Beggar on Horseback.

The term appears in George Goodman's novel and screenplay for The Wheeler Dealers (1963).

A budget is a quantitative expression of a financial plan for a defined period of time.

It may include planned sales volumes and revenues, resource quantities, costs and expenses, assets, liabilities and cash flows.

It expresses strategic plans of business units, organizations, activities or events in measurable terms.

A tool is any physical item that can be used to achieve a goal, especially if the item is not consumed in the process.

Tool use by humans dates back millions of years, and other animals are also known to employ simple tools.