The relative proportion of each type of cost within an organization. This can also refer to the breakdown of costs required to manufacture a product.

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Electronic commerce (e-commerce) is the use of electronic communication to do business. It may be used to carry out business-to-business or business-to-consumer transactions. The real benefit of e-commerce is not that it makes old processes work better, but rather it provides a means to break with tradition and create new ways of doing business. For example, using the Internet will allow some businesses to remain small while building a larger turnover by reducing the cost of doing business.  Read more... (357 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)