Question

Suppose winston's annual salary as an accountant is $60,000, and his financial assets generate $4,000 per year in interest. one day, after deciding to be his own boss, he quits his job and uses his financial assets to establish a consulting business, which he runs out of his home. to run the business, he outlays $8,000 in cash to cover all the costs involved with running the business, and earns revenues of $150,000. what are winston's economic profits

Answer 1

Economic profit is calculated as:

Economic profit = Total Revenues – Total Cost

Total cost both includes explicit and implicit cost. In this case, the explicit cost is $8,000 while the implicit cost is $64,000. Explicit cost is a direct payment made to run the business while implicit cost is the opportunity as accountant that is lost. Therefore,

Economic profit = $150,000 – ($8,000 + $64,000)

Economic profit = $78,000