action codat_get_direct_cost {
  label: "Get direct cost"
  description: "Gets the specified direct cost for a given company."
  provider: codat
  method: GET
  path: "/companies/{companyId}/connections/{connectionId}/data/directCosts/{directCostId}"
  encoding: json
  output: {
    type: "object"
    description: "> **Language tip:** Direct costs may also be referred to as **Spend transactions**, **Spend money transactions**, or **Payments** in various accounting platforms.\n\n> View the coverage for direct costs in the <a className=\"external\" href=\"https://knowledge.codat.io/supported-features/accounting?view=tab-by-data-type&dataType=directCosts\" target=\"_blank\">Data coverage explorer</a>.\n\n## Overview\n\nDirect costs include:\n  * Purchasing an item and paying it off at the point of the purchase\n  * Receiving cash from a refunded item if the refund is made by the supplier\n  * Withdrawing money from a bank account \n  * Writing a cheque\n\nDirect costs is a child data type of [account transactions](https://docs.codat.io/accounting-api#/schemas/AccountTransaction)."
    required: ["currency", "issueDate", "lineItems", "paymentAllocations", "subTotal", "taxAmount", "totalAmount"]
  }
}