[ErnBatavia]

So much of these "cost" things are strictly bookkeeping...(example: "The cost of the war", bla, bla, bla)

These people should strike out the salaries, which would have been paid anyway, and then give us the real EXTRA costs.

[DoughtyOne]

I agree. What this looks like is the build-up for requests to be reimbursed by some government agency.