1. A second problem with traditional cost accounting systems was that they misled managers about the true cost of products and services. 2. Compare carefully the costs of these link ups with the true costs of bringing people together physically. 3. Ideally, polluters would pay the true costs of the degradation they cause. 4. If drivers paid the true costs of road use, they might switch to less congested times, or make fewer journeys. 5. Meanwhile, economists argue about whether the true cost of healthcare has even gone down under managed care. 6. Once they expose the true cost of their subsidies, elected officials often Decide that some are inappropriate. 7. That is why environmentalists have often clamoured for regulation, as the best way to conceal the true costs of policy. 8. The fixed prescription charge conceals from the general public the true cost of medicines. 9. The true cost of allowing unfettered insider dealing has become less important than what people think the true costs to be. 10. The true cost often differs from that which had first been projected. |