its competitors priceswhich is the market price. If it raised them‚ its customers would switch all of their purchases to competing firms‚ and the first firms sales would drop to zero. 3. (Total Revenue) Look back at Exhibit 3‚ panel (a) in this chapter. Explain why the total revenue curve is a straight line from the origin‚ whereas the slope of the total cost curve changes. If the firm is operating under conditions of perfect competition‚ its output decisions cannot affect the price in the market
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Question 2: a Define‚ describe and illustrate with a diagram‚ one opportunity cost for a person starting up their own business (2 marks) b Explain the difference between implicit and explicit costs (2 marks) c Explain the difference between accounting profit and economic profit (2 marks) d How do opportunity cost‚ explicit cost‚ implicit cost‚ accounting profit and economic profit relate to each other? (4 marks) Question 3: a Why would consumers prefer that the government tax products
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2008MBA035 ECONOMIC ENVIROMENT OF BUSINESS 1 TERM PAPER QUESTION Notwithstanding the public policy response to the economic recession‚ business performance will continue to deteriorate. Global Overview Recession can be defined as the reduction of a country’s gross domestic product (GDP) for at least two quarters. According to Wikipedia‚ it is a period of reduced economic activity‚ hence‚ a business cycle contraction. Recession has many attributes that can occur simultaneously
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5. Copy three important passages (minimum of 3 sentences each); and then respond to these passages. Why do you think they are important? How do they help the author create his purpose? 1.“Economics is‚ at root‚ the study of incentives: how people get what they want‚ or need‚ especially when other people want or need the same thing. Economists love incentives. They love to dream them up and enact them‚ study them and tinker with them. The typical economist believes the world has not yet invented
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Economic Order Quantity - PRACTICE EXERCISE SCM 300 Below are some the key figures important in your analysis: Annual Per Unit Holding Costs are estimated at 30% of the wholesale cost. D = 13000 H = $60.00 C = $200.00 S = $400.00 Using Present Lot Size (Q = 1100) Calculate the time between orders? Do Not Round. 4.40 weeks How many orders per year are being placed annually? Do Not Round. 11.8 Orders per year According to the information supplied
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Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 2. Background 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Objectives 3. Approach and Methodology 4.3. Survey Questionnaire 4. Respondent Profile 5. Results and discussion 6.4. Service Provider Subscribed 6.5. Plan Range vs Bill/Month 6.6. Important Feature/Service 6.7. Overall Satisfaction 6.8. Loyalty vs satisfaction vary by Age 6. Conclusion 7. Reference 8. Annex 9.9. Annex A
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“ Statistics should be interpreted with caution as they can be misleading; they can both lie and tell the truth” Statistics are being used everyday to describe things in working and studying areas to show the productivity of the results they are hoping for. Therefore‚ people observe and notice alternative objects the world around. Throughout this fact‚ similarities and differences are such features that could endanger or turned out as advantages. This is called statistics. Explanations
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Business Economics Questions: 1. Explain the subject matter of economics as question concerning the adjustments between unlimited want and limited resources. 1 & 2 2. Explain how Market/Price mechanism solves there central problems of economics 1 & 2 3. Explain why the price in competitive markets settles down the equilibrium intersection of supply and demand. Explain what happens if the market price starts out too high or too low. 3 4.Explain the economic meaning 0f price elasticity
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Chapter 1 – Applied Problem 1 § Explicit costs are monetary costs of using market-supplied resources. Explicit Costs | | Cost of Products and Services | $355‚000 | Selling Expenses | $155‚000 | Administrative Expenses | $45‚000 | Interest Expense | $45‚000 | Legal Expenses | $28‚000 | Income Taxes | $165‚000 | Total Explicit Costs | $793‚000 | § Implicit costs are non-monetary costs of using owner-supplied resources. Implicit Costs | | Forgone Salary | $175‚000
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Management. Prentice Hall‚ eighth edition‚ 2003. 3 Kamlesh‚ Mathur‚ Daniel Solow. Management Science - The Art of Decision Making. Prentice Hall‚ 1994. 4 Jon Curwin and Roger Slater. Quantitative Methods for Business Decisions. Thomson‚ fifth edition‚ 2002. 5 Steyn‚ Smit‚ Du Toit‚ Strasheim. Modern Statistics in Practice. Van Schaik Publishers‚ 1994. 295
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