Question

Sue quit her $40,000 per year job and opened a coffee shop that she calls Top Brew. In the first year, Top Brew earned $200,000 in revenue. For the same year, Top Brew paid $80,000 to employees in wages, spent $40,000 on ingredients such as coffee beans, $15,000 rent for the building to house Top Brew. Sue also used $50,000 of her personal savings to purchase equipment for Top Brew, which she was earning $4,000 in interest each year. Assuming no depreciation in the value of the equipment, Sueâs economic profit from Top Brew for the year is _______.

Answer 1

Answer:

$21,000

Explanation:

Economic profit = accounting profit - implicit cost

Accounting profit= total revenue - explicit cost

Explicit cost includes the amount expended in running the business. They include rent , salary and cost of raw materials

Implicit cost is the cost of the next best option forgone when one alternative is chosen over other alternatives. Implicit cost includes salary lost due to opening the shop and interest that could have been earned on the savings  

Total explicit cost = $80,000 + $40,000 + $15,000 = $135,000

Accounting profit = $200,000 - $135,000 = $65,000

Economic profit = $65,000 - ($40,000 + $4,000) = $21,000