Flashcards in An Economist's View of Cost and Profit 7.1-1-Jenna Bryant Deck (12)
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What type of profit uses only explicit costs?
Accounting Profit
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What type of profit calculates opportunity costs?
Economic Profit
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What are sunk costs?
Unrecoverable costs that a firm expends on a project
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Should sunk costs effect current decisions?
No, sunk costs should never effect current decisions
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What is the formula for profit?
TR-TC=profit, totatl revenue minus total costs equals profit
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What is an explicit cost?
A cost that a firm must write checks for
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How is accounting profit calculated?
The firm finds its total revenue and subtracts its explicit costs
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Which one is always less: accounting or economic profit?
Economic Profit
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How is economic profit calculated?
All profit greater than the opportunity costs and explicit costs
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What is another name for economic profit?
Rent
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If benefits are greater than the required additional costs to finish it, then?
Finish it
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