Question

Jacqui decides to open her own business and earns $50,000 in accounting profit the first year. When deciding to open her own business, she withdrew $20,000 from her savings, which earned 5 percent interest. She also turned down three separate job offers with annual salaries of $30,000, $40,000, and $45,000. What is Jacqui's economic profit from running her own business?a. $-56,000 b. $-6,000 c. $4,000 d. $19,000

Answer 1

Answer: $4,000

Explanation: Economic profit can be defined as the difference between the total revenues generated from operations and cost incurred plus any opportunity cost taken.

Opportunity cost is the cost of next best alternative foregone, that is loss of profits that occurred due to choosing one alternative over other. In the given case loss of interest and loss of highest salary are opportunity cost for Jacqui .

Hence,

economic profit = revenues - (interest + salary)

                        =  $50,000 - ($1000 + $45,000)

                        = $4,000