at cost

基本解釋

Some institutions argue that accounting rules permit them to hold derivatives at cost.
一些機構辯稱，會計規(guī)則允許它們以成本持有衍生品。
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There is an even broader problem. When it comes to measuring national income, we’re generally valuing expenditures at cost, rather than tracking productivity in terms of results.
還有更深遠影響的問題：當衡量國家收入的時候，我們一般只在成本上確定開支的數(shù)值，而并不跟蹤最終生產(chǎn)率的轉換。
Banks’ financial statements could be modified to show assets at cost as well as fair value, so that if regulators or investors wanted to use traditional accounting to form a view, they could.
銀行的財務報表可以適當調(diào)整以便顯示按成本以及按市值估算的資產(chǎn)，因此如果監(jiān)管者或投資人愿意使用傳統(tǒng)的會計方法來形成觀點，他們就應當可以。

But doctors at the University of Michigan think they know a way to lower that cost.
As a result of the Freedom Rides, they had integrated interstate transportation, at great cost to the volunteers who rode those buses.
作為自由乘車運動的結果，州際間的交通被大大集中，不過這使那些乘坐巴士的志愿者們付出了極大的代價。
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So I'll be producing this stuff, this water at cost c and only getting p, which is not only less than c in return.
這就導致成本是c的瓶裝水只能賣到p,這個價格都不能撈回本錢呢
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Novartis sold 62 million courses of its malaria drug, Coartem, at cost to poor African countries.
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