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The following cost info for Creamy Crisp Donut Company:
1.Entrepreneur's potential earnings as a salaried worker = 50,000
2. Annual lease on building = 22,000
3. Annual revenue from operations = 380,000
4. Payments to workers = 120,000
5. Utilities costs = 8,000
6. Value of Entrepreneur's talent in the next best entrepreneurial activity = 80,000
7. Forgone interest on persnal funds used to finance the business = 6,000
Creamy Crisp's Economic Profit is:
1.Entrepreneur's potential earnings as a salaried worker = 50,000
2. Annual lease on building = 22,000
3. Annual revenue from operations = 380,000
4. Payments to workers = 120,000
5. Utilities costs = 8,000
6. Value of Entrepreneur's talent in the next best entrepreneurial activity = 80,000
7. Forgone interest on persnal funds used to finance the business = 6,000
Creamy Crisp's Economic Profit is:
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94,000
380,000 (#3) -
Explicit costs = 2, 4, 5 &
Implicit costs = 1, 6 and 7
380,000 (#3) -
Explicit costs = 2, 4, 5 &
Implicit costs = 1, 6 and 7
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The basic characters of the short run is that:
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a firm doesn't have sufficient time to change the size of its plant
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Accounting profits are equal to total revenue minus:
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total explicit costs
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Accounting profits are typically:
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greater than economic profits because they don't take implicit costs into account
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Assume that a firm in the short run is producing 100 units of output, has ATC of $200, and AVC of 150. The firms fixed costs are:
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$5000
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Suppose that a business incurred implicit costs of $500,000 and explicit costs of $5 million in a specific year. IF the firm sold 100,000 of its units of output at $50 per unit, its accounting:
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profits were zero and its economic losses were 500,000
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Suppose that a business incurred implicit costs of $200,000 and explicit costs of $1 million in a specific year. If the firm sold 4,000 units of its output at $300 per unit, its accounting profits were:
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200,000 and its economic profits were zero
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Economic profits are calculated by subtracting:
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explicit and implicit costs from total revenue
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Marginal cost is the:
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change in total cost that results from producing one more unit of output
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If you operated a small bakery, which of the following would be a variable cost in the short run?
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baking supplies
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Which is most likely to be a fixed cost?
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property insurance premiums
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If a firm decides to produce no output in the short run, its costs will be:
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its fixed costs
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Implicit and explicit costs are different in that:
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the former refer to non-expenditure costs and the latter to monetary payments
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In the short run, the Sure-Screen T-shirt company is producing 500 units of output. Its AVCs are 2.00 and its AFCs are .50. The firm's total costs:
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1,250
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The following cost info for the creamy crisp donut company:
1.Entrepreneur's potential earnings as a salaried worker = 50,000
2. Annual lease on building = 22,000
3. Annual revenue from operations = 380,000
4. Payments to workers = 120,000
5. Utilities costs = 8,000
6. Value of Entrepreneur's talent in the next best entrepreneurial activity = 80,000
7. Forgone interest on personal funds used to finance the business = 6,000
Creamy Crisp's Accounting Profit is:
1.Entrepreneur's potential earnings as a salaried worker = 50,000
2. Annual lease on building = 22,000
3. Annual revenue from operations = 380,000
4. Payments to workers = 120,000
5. Utilities costs = 8,000
6. Value of Entrepreneur's talent in the next best entrepreneurial activity = 80,000
7. Forgone interest on personal funds used to finance the business = 6,000
Creamy Crisp's Accounting Profit is:
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230,000
380,000(#3) -
Explicit cost = 2, 4, 5
380,000(#3) -
Explicit cost = 2, 4, 5
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An explicit cost is:
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a money payment made for resources not owned by the firm itself
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The law of diminishing returns indicates that:
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As extra units of a variable resource are added to a fixed resource, marginal product will decline beyond some point
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The amount of calendar time associated with the long run:
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varies from industry to industry
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Fixed cost is:
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any cost which doesn't change when the firm changes its output