question
total revenue
answer
The amount a firm receives from the sale of goods and services
question
Total cost
answer
The amount a firm spends to produce and or sell goods and services
question
Profit
answer
The result when total revenue is higher than total cost
question
Loss
answer
The result when total revenue is less than total cost
question
explicit costs
answer
tangible out-of-pocket expenses
question
implicit costs
answer
the costs of resources already owned, for which no out-of-pocket payment is made
question
accounting profit
answer
profit calculated by subtracting a firm's explicit costs from total revenue
question
Economic profit
answer
Profit calculated by subtracting both the explicit costs and the implicit costs from a firms total revenue
question
Output
answer
the product the firm creates
question
factors of production
answer
The inputs (labor, land, and capital) used in producing goods and services
question
production function
answer
the relationship between the inputs a firm uses and the outputs it creates
question
Marginal product
answer
the change in output associated with one additional unit of an input
question
diminishing marginal product
answer
condition occurring when successive increases in inputs are associated with a slower rise in output
question
Variable costs
answer
Costs that change with the rate of output
question
Fixed costs
answer
Costs that do not vary with a firms output in the short run also known as overhead
question
Average Variable Cost (AVC)
answer
The amount determined by dividing a firms total variable costs by the output
question
Average Fixed Cost (AFC)
answer
The amount determined by dividing a firms total fixed costs by the output
question
Average Total Cost (ATC)
answer
the sum of average variable cost and average fixed cost
question
Marginal Cost (MC)
answer
The increase in cost that occurs from producing one additional unit of output
question
Scale
answer
the size of the production process
question
efficient scale
answer
the output level that minimizes the average total cost in the long run
question
economies of scale
answer
Condition occurring when long run average total costs decline as output expands
question
diseconomies of scale
answer
Condition occurring when long run average total costs rise as output expands
question
constant returns to scale
answer
a condition in which the long-run average total cost remain constant as output expands