vuosikustannusta

Vuosikustannusta is the partitive singular form of the Finnish noun vuosikustannus, which means annual cost or recurring yearly expense. In financial and budgeting language it refers to the amount of costs that arise each year for a given activity, asset, service or contract. The term is commonly used in business planning, cost accounting and cost analyses to describe ongoing yearly expenditures rather than one-time payments.

The concept is used to express annual expenditures in budgeting and reporting. It helps compare alternatives on an annual basis and to project costs over the life of a project or asset. Vuosikustannusta can describe a single year’s cost in a sentence such as “vuosikustannusta arvioidaan noin 12 000 euroksi,” or appear as part of a discussion about annual cost levels in different scenarios. It is closely related to, but distinct from, the plural form vuosikustannuksia and to related terms such as elinkaarikustannukset (life-cycle costs) and kustannusarvio (cost estimate).

Typical components of yearly costs include recurring expenses related to operations, maintenance, subscriptions, licenses, utilities tied to the activity, and insurance. When calculating vuosikustannusta, analysts may annualize monthly or quarterly costs (for example, kuukausikustannus multiplied by 12) or sum known annual rates to obtain an overall figure.

See also: kustannukset, kustannuslaskenta, elinkaarikustannukset, kustannusarvio.