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Carrying costs should be recorded as direct, indirect, or both?

Carrying costs should be recorded as direct, indirect, or both?

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Carrying costs or holding costs should be recorded as both, direct and indirect cost.

The cost of money locked or tied up in the inventory, storage space, insurance and handling equipments form direct cost of carrying the inventory.

The cost of managing the inventory, logistics support and the cost of people doing these functions are indirect costs of carrying the inventory. Examples include costs of taking physical inventory counts, theft, obsolescence, damage.  

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