Concept introduction:
There are three types of costs according to the unit of production; Variable, Fixed and Mixed. Variable costs change proportionally with the number of units produced and variable cost per unit remains constant. Fixed Cost remains same in totality irrespective of the number of units produced. The mixed cost is the mix of variable and fixed cost, some of its part is fixed and some variable.
To indicate:
The effect of wrong classification of costs on the financial statement

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