{"id":1250,"date":"2019-11-13T10:23:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T13:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/previews.elleven.digital\/acocearense\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2025-05-07T10:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T13:23:27","slug":"entenda-quais-sao-os-custos-fixos-e-os-custos-variaveis-de-uma-empresa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/previews.elleven.digital\/acocearense\/en\/entenda-quais-sao-os-custos-fixos-e-os-custos-variaveis-de-uma-empresa\/","title":{"rendered":"Understand what a company's fixed and variable costs are"},"content":{"rendered":"

To create and maintain a company, there are a number of\u00a0costs<\/a>. You need to purchase supplies, pay taxes, pay your team, and more. To optimize cost management, you need to classify them as a company's fixed or variable costs.<\/p>\n

By better understanding your costs, you'll know which ones are directly involved in your company's production process, which ones can be reduced, and how this will impact (positive or negative) your business. This way, you'll have a better chance of making informed decisions.<\/p>\n

In the following topics, you'll understand the concept of a company's fixed and variable costs, the main ones, and how to reduce them. Enjoy your reading.<\/p>\n

After all, what are fixed and variable costs?<\/h2>\n

Many factors can affect a company's costs. Some are more frequent, take up a larger portion of the budget, are involved in the company's core business, and can even be considered\u00a0strategic<\/a>. Others, no.<\/p>\n

To facilitate cost management, it's common to classify costs according to a few criteria. Costs can be distinguished: direct and indirect, strategic and non-strategic, fixed and variable. This article focuses on the latter set of costs.<\/p>\n

To make it clearer, imagine you had an unusual month and your sales doubled. The staff had to work overtime, and the store was open longer. At the end of the month, the cost of electricity increased. The store consumed more energy, and the bill increased.<\/p>\n

In this case, we have a variable cost. In short, it's the type of cost that varies according to the company's productivity and delivery levels. In other words, it's not stable over time.<\/p>\n

Fixed costs, on the other hand, remain stable, even if the company becomes more productive. Renting a commercial space is an example of this. No matter how much you sell, at the end of the month, the rent will remain exactly the same.<\/p>\n

What are the main fixed and variable costs?<\/h2>\n

Some costs can be misleading. For example, is sales team pay a fixed or variable cost? Well, you might say it's a variable cost because it changes according to sales volume, but that's not quite the case. You need to analyze it more deeply.<\/p>\n

First, the term "pay" is very broad. It includes the monthly salary, which is fixed. It also includes the team's commission, which varies significantly depending on sales volume. Therefore, salary is a fixed cost, and commission is variable.<\/p>\n

Below, we present some of the main fixed costs:<\/p>\n