ANSWERS TO End-of chapter QUESTIONS AND exercises Answers to Questions for Review 1. (Explicit and Implicit Costs) Amos McCoy is currently raising corn on his 100-acre farm and earning an accounting profit of $100 per acre. However, if he raised soybeans, he could earn $200 per acre. Is he currently earning an economic profit? Why or why not? Amos McCoy is not currently making an economic profit, despite the fact that he is making an accounting profit. This is so, because the accounting profit calculation does not take into account an important implicit cost—the opportunity cost of not raising soybeans. Actually, McCoy is experiencing an economic loss. According to our theory, he should get out of the corn business and begin …show more content…
Accounting profit = $25 million; economic loss = –$5 million c. Accounting profit = $10 million; economic loss = –$10 million d. Accounting loss = –$25,000; economic loss = –$75,000 4. (Alternative Measures of Profit) Why is it reasonable to think of normal profit as a type of cost to the firm? Recall that firms produce output using four kinds of resources—natural resources, labor, capital, and entrepreneurial ability. The owner of the firm supplies some of the resources that the firm employs. Normal profit is the return to the entrepreneurial ability and other resources supplied by the firm’s owners. If this profit is not as large as those individuals could earn in their best alternative situation, they will switch the resources to that alternative. So, we can think of normal profit as being the minimum return, or cost, that is necessary to keep the firm running. 5. (Short Run Versus Long Run) What distinguishes a firm’s short run period from its long run period? In the short run, at least one of the firm’s resources is fixed, usually the size of the firm. In the long run, all the resources are variable. That is, the quantities of all resources can change to alter the firm’s level of output, including the size of the firm. 6. (Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns) As a farmer, you must decide how many times during the year to plant a new crop. Also, you
One states six steps in which the counselor and child work through the problem, collect data, and set goals. This method is which of the following
Profit is a surplus in money after taking into account all costs incurred in buying and selling a product. Operating profit is the profit made after all direct and indirect costs have been paid. (Bized, 2010a) From NEXT’s company accounts, the operating profit has increased by £51.5m. This is a positive steady increase which has been achieved throughout the
This measures the relationship between net profits and sales of a firm. The net profit margin is indicative of management’s ability to operate the business with sufficient success not only to recover revenues of the period, the cost of merchandise or services, the expenses of operating the business and the cost of the borrowed funds, but also leave a margin of reasonable
Profit is the money that a business earns in revenue, minus investments, and the cost of salaries.
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Normal return is the minium profit that is required to cover the costs of inputs and all of expenses associated with it. Economic profit is a forgone profit and not and economic profit which is the biggest difference between the two types of profits.
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Throughout this task I will do my best to explain how firms determined to maximize profit do just that. Specifically I will delineate how such firms choose the optimum level of production or output for the goods they produce and how they behave with respect to various elevations of marginal revenue. In my attempt it will be appropriate for me to clarify the definitions of various economic terms in order to assure a proper understanding of my thoughts on this topic, I will provide these definitions throughout.
In business there are certain factors that have to be evaluated before a company can see if a profit has been made. To even get to the point where a profit will be made there has to be a product that is sold whether it is a tangible or an intangible product. There has to be something that the business is selling in order to make that profit. The amount of profit that is attained is the outcome of the total revenue minus the total cost. This will then show the business what the remaining profit is. Business is like a puzzle, all the pieces have to fit and work together to have the puzzle complete. In business things have to work together or it won’t work and all the hard work that was put in to making
History 1302 Final Exam Spring 2013 On the day of the final, the students will be told which two prompts they will be required to respond to in blue books that the students have provided to the instructor. Essays should show a great deal of thought and range between “short answers” and formal essays, leaning closer to the idea of an essay. The student may have one page of handwritten notes on a standard size sheet of paper (8½ X 11). Bring this sheet with you to the final. 1) The events at the 1968 Democratic national Convention in Chicago suggested to many that the nation was disintegrating. But, as the authors of the textbook have noted, the tensions that seemed so palpable that summer had been long in developing and had “revealed deep
Despite this, Chick-fil-A has posted positive increases in revenue all 40 years the company has been in business, many of which have been double-digit increases. These increases may seem extraordinary, but Chick-fil-A has used a strategy that ensures their success. Another factor which has the ability to have a major impact on profitability is the increasing price of chicken. With the increasing popularity of ethanol based fuels – made primarily of corn – it is becoming more costly to feed and raise chickens, whose main source of food is corn. This new demand for corn has increased the price, which is in turn passed onto the next buyer. It is necessary for Chick-fil-A to address this issue and formulate a plan of action to try to combat these rising costs.
The principle of diminishing marginal productivity states that as one input in the production process is increased, there will be a point in which the addition of an input will result in smaller and smaller benefit. We can relate this principle with the weight of cows. As more nutrients, minerals, and forage is added to a cow the more a cow weighs. This in turn results in heavier calves. However, when a cow begins to weigh over 1200 lbs. the weight of calves diminishes. When taking in to account the principle of diminishing marginal utility, Old Mill Farms would be able to eliminate their losses by restricting their cow weight to 1200
defined. Once I fully considered this the idea of true profit seemed strange. Profit was
Secondly, how management of Monash Cow Ltd make decisions about continuing of the entity’s assets and operations. To be more specific, in this case, the management of Monash Cow Ltd may consider the performance of each factory by comparing the amount of milk products generated. In the short run, the management may shut down the factory with the lowest efficiency. However, in the long run, the management may continue that factory if the market price is not lower than average variable cost (Leo, knapp, McGowan, & Sweeting,