Explanation:
A provision is indeed an item freed up from either a company's revenue to cover potential future costs or a probable property price decrease. It shows up as spending on the financial statements and is documented as a current liabilities.
Answer:
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Explanation:
Social enterprises participate in commercial activities to solve social problems, improve communities' well-being, and better the environment. They make money through normal trading activities.
<em>Some characteristics of social enterprises include</em>
1. They have a mission to serve the community by initiating and supporting social, environmental, cultural, and economic programs. Social enterprises are not entirely driven by profits but have social missions to achieve.
2. Social enterprises generate the majority of their income through business activities. They are self-reliant as the selling of goods and services is their primary source of revenue.
3. A big proportion of the profits generated by social enterprises is invested in community projects. Social enterprises use profits to achieve their social objectives.
Answer:
a)
1. Explicit cost
2. Implicit Cost
3. Implicit Cost
4. Explicit cost
b)
Accounting Profit is $62000.
Economic Profit is -$3000. (a loss of $3000)
Explanation:
a)
Explicit costs are those costs incurred by a business that require an outlay of money as a result of operating a business.
Implicit costs, on the other hand, are the costs that do not require an outlay of money as a result of operating a business. They are instead the opportunity costs of operating a business or the benefits that are foregone.
1. The wages and utility bills are a result of operating a business and requires and outlay of money as their payment. They are <u>explicit costs.</u>
2. The rental income could have been earned if Larry rented the showroom he is using to operate his business from. The rent foregone is an opportunity cost and is an <u>implicit cost.</u>
3. The salary Larry could have earned is also something that Brian has to forego to operate his business and is an <u>implicit cost.</u>
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4. The cost of purchases paid to manufacturer requires outlay of money and is an <u>explicit cost.</u>
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b)
Accounting profit = Total Revenue - Total explicit cost
Economic profit = Total revenue - (Total Explicit Cost + Total Implicit Cost)
Accounting Profit = 793000 - 430000 - 301000 = $62000 profit
Economic profit = 793000 - (430000 + 301000 + 15000 + 50000) = -$3000 loss
