Question

Suppose you are thinking of starting your own small business. Consider how your accounting profit is different than your economic profit.
a. Accounting profit is different than economic profit because:________.
i. economic profit is only important to economists and does not apply to the actual decision to launch a new business.
ii. accounting profit includes all financial and opportunity costs of starting a business.
iii. economic profit is what is reported on your tax return.
iv. accounting profit ignores the opportunity cost of launching a new business.
b. After doing your research, you are confident that you will make an accounting profit if you launch the business but feel it is very unlikely that you will make an economic profit. In this case, you start the business.

Answer 1

Answer:

IV

YES

Explanation:

Accounting profit= total revenue - explicit cost

Total revenue =price x quantity sold  

Explicit cost includes the amount expended in running the business.

They include rent , salary and cost of raw materials

Economic profit = accounting profit - implicit cost

Implicit cost is the cost of the next best option forgone when one alternative is chosen over other alternatives

economic profit includes the opportunity cost of funds

In some industries, only normal profit is earned in the short run. For example, in a perfect competition and monopolistic competition, only normal profit is earned in the long run due to free entry and exit of firms in the industry. thus if only normal profit would be earned, the company should still go ahead and establish