1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
xeze [42]
3 years ago
15

The concept of economic profit is used for making a decision between your two _______ options. Earning zero economic profit is n

ot bad. It means that your two best options make you equally well off so you are indifferent between the two. For example, I am indifferent between teaching microeconomics and macroeconomics because they make me equally well off (I get paid the same).
If economic profit is positive. you should choose the _______ option because it will make you _______ off. If economic profit is negative, you should choose the ________ option because it will make you better off.
Business
1 answer:
tigry1 [53]3 years ago
8 0

Answer:

The concept of economic profit ....... <u>alternative</u> two options.

If economic profit is positive .......... <u>Current </u>option.

If economic profit is negative............ <u>Other </u> option

Explanation:

Economic Profit is the excess of revenue associated with an option, over its costs (explicit external & implicit opportunity costs).

Example : Revenue - Direct explicit cost of production - opportunity cost (like interest on money invested, salary of job left foregone).

The concept is used to make decision between two<u> alternative</u> options. Given, zero economic profits imply indifference.

Positive Economic Profit implies - one should choose<u> Current </u>option, as it will make <u>Better off </u>, having more benefit than other option

Negative Economic Profit implies - one should choose <u>Other </u> option, as it wil make better off, having more benefit than the former considered option.

You might be interested in
What is the yield to maturity of a bond that as a face value of $1,000, is currently selling for $980, has a 5% coupon (paid sem
Ghella [55]

Answer:

5.47%

Explanation:

The computation of yield to maturity is shown in the attachment:

Given that

FV = $1000

PV = ($980)

PMT = 5% ÷ 2 × 1,000  = $25

Number of years = 5 years × 2 =  10 Years

The formula is shown below:  

= Rate(NPER;PMT;-PV;FV;type)  

The present value come in negative  

So, after applying the above formula, the yield to maturity is

= 2.73 × 2

= 5.46%

Therefore with the help of spreadsheets (as attached),  we could explain in a better manner.

7 0
3 years ago
What is meant by market in the lower-of-cost-or-market rule?
Pavel [41]

Answer:

Stock is valued at lower of : cost or market price [prudence principle]

Explanation :

Prudence or Conservatism is an accounting principle : anticipating for all possible losses & expenditures, not anticipating for possible profits & gains. This makes business better prepared to face all contingent expenditures/ losses.

This concept's implication is that : Stock or Inventory is valued at the value whichever is lesser between 'cost of inventory' & sale price. This makes inventory valuation as per the above explained Prudence/ Conservatism principle.

7 0
3 years ago
Which of the following types of accounts do NOT require an adjusting entry?
trasher [3.6K]
I think it is d. none are correct
6 0
3 years ago
Dustup, a cleaning products company, was trying to revive its old wood floor waxing product. It began offering an augmented serv
mylen [45]

Answer:

Dustup forgot to the consumers if the add-on will give them more satisfaction from using their product.  

Explanation:

The market is always king. Getting first-hand information about what consumers need and how they need it is the best way to go about creating a product or modifying an existing one to become more profitable.

The removal of the brochures from the bottles showed that shoppers didn't necessarily want their product. What they wanted was to be able to make contact with the company and get more information on how to revive their old wooden floors.

Cheers!

7 0
3 years ago
A manufacturer makes lightbulbs and claims that their reliability is 98 percent. Reliability is defined to be the proportion of
quester [9]

Answer:

The expected number of nondefective lightbulbs is 980 out of a random sample of 1,000 bulbs.

Explanation:

Hi, if the company is right, this is the operation that we need to do.

Bulbs(operating)=1,000*0.98=980

So, we are expecting 980 working bulbs out of a sample of 1,000

Best of luck

4 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • On January 1, Puckett Company paid $2.97 million for 99,000 shares of Harrison’s voting common stock, which represents a 40 perc
    12·1 answer
  • Ann wants to buy a building. The annual NOI for the building will be $165,000. She wants to get a 20 year interest only fixed ra
    14·1 answer
  • The most compelling and effective messages contain a variety of sentence patterns and avoid common sentence faults. You can crea
    14·1 answer
  • Question 3: Economic value-added (EVA) Net operating profit before taxes is $1,800. Total assets (invested capital) are $8,500,
    9·1 answer
  • In its​ year-end income​ statement, Black Knights Company reported cost of goods sold of​ $450,000. Changes occurred in several
    15·1 answer
  • Here are three things you could do if you do not attend your economics class: go to a free outdoor yoga class with some friends
    8·1 answer
  • Notice that real GDP trends upward over time but experiences ups and downs in the short run. A period of declining real GDP, suc
    12·1 answer
  • Profit is only a liability for the business. Can you justify this?​
    9·1 answer
  • Do you think that customers are more empowered today than they were before social media and other digital communication was so p
    14·1 answer
  • Which of the following is considered the most likely source of cyberattacks, based on a poll of global executives, information s
    11·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!