Question

Hubert lives in San Diego and runs a business that sells guitars. In an average year, he receives $701,000 from selling guitars. Of this sales revenue, he must pay the manufacturer a wholesale cost of $420,000; he also pays wages and utility bills totaling $247,000. He owns his showroom; if he chooses to rent it out, he will receive $9,000 in rent per year. Assume that the value of this showroom does not depreciate over the year. Also, if Hubert does not operate this guitar business, he can work as a financial advisor, receive an annual salary of $32,000 with no additional monetary costs, and rent out his showroom at the $9,000 per year rate. No other costs are incurred in running this guitar business.
Identify each of Hubert's costs in the following table as either an implicit cost or an explicit cost of selling guitars.

Answer 1

Answer:

Explicit costs are the monetary costs that a business incurs when it makes a payment, either in the form of wages, or taxes, or to manufacturers, etc.

Implicit costs are the opportunity costs that arise when businesses give up on other options when making a choice. They are not represented by any actual payments.

In this case, we have the following explicit costs:

$420,000 paid to the manufacturer

$247,000 paid in wages and utility bills

And we have the following implicit costs:

$9,000 in rent per year if Hubert rented out the local

$32,000 per year if Hubert worked as a financial advisor