Idle facility

The term ‘facility’ has a wider connotation which may also include
prediction capacity. Facilities may be provided by fixed assets such as building space,
plants equipment capacity, etc. or by various service functions such as material services,
production services, personal services etc. If a firm fails to make full use of the facilities of
its disposal, the firm may be said to have idle facilities. Thus idle facilities refer to that
part of total facilities which remains unutilised due to any reason such as non-availability
of raw material, power, lack of demand etc. In Cost Accounting idle facilities are treated in
the same way as those of idle capacity.