What does it mean when a business reports its costs on a "fully loaded basis"?

Question

What does it mean to ask a private business to report their costs "on a fully loaded basis"? And then to ask them to "please indicate the fully loaded basis for which the costs are reported"?

Answer 1

Reporting on a fully-loaded basis means that you report all of the costs related to the product that it is selling. Identifying the fully-loaded basis for which the costs are reported would mean identifying the fixed and variable costs related to the production of the product being sold.