The phrase "affect costs" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing how certain factors or changes influence the expenses associated with a project, product, or service.
Example: "The new regulations will significantly affect costs for manufacturers, leading to higher prices for consumers."
Alternatives: "impact expenses" or "influence costs".
Monitoring and analyzing energy use can reveal operating issues that affect costs, performance, and quality.
To the Editor: Your editorial argues that "truly 'game-changing' innovations... will take years to affect costs and quality".
A study released Wednesday by Matthew M. Chingos at the Brookings Institution found that defections from the testing consortia will not significantly affect costs for remaining members.
Yet it seems clear that decisions not to buy insurance will, in the aggregate, affect costs in the broader health care markets.
Accurate characterization of parameters that influence indoor environments is often limited to the use of proprietary hardware and software, which can adversely affect costs, flexibility, and data integration.
While Hilton's management had discussed what to do if the recovery is three to six months off, the executives decided that it would not significantly affect costs if they were more optimistic, Mr. Bollenbach said.
All these factors affect cost of ownership and network reliability.
"The goal has got to be to deal with all the levers that affect cost and access and quality but to not overreach in any of those areas.
But advocates for the disabled say the State Department of Insurance polled several insurance companies and concluded that wheelchair accessibility should not affect cost.
This is likely to affect cost and outcome estimates in decision models.
For the surgical area, variables that significantly affect cost are "Adjusted patients" and "Number of beds".
