Question

A certain firm produces and sells staplers. Last year, it produced 7,000 staplers and sold each stapler for $6. In producing the 7,000 staplers, it incurred variable costs of $28,000 and a total cost of $45,000. Suppose the owner of the business had an offer to work for another firm that raises his opportunity cost by $25,000. The firm's economic profit for the year was

Answer 1

Economic loss=$(28,000)

Step-by-step explanation

Accounting profit is the difference between total revenue and explicit cost.

Explicit cost refers to all cash and non cash cost incurred to produce the goods and services

Economic profit = sales revenue - explicit cost - implicit cost

Implicit cost is the opportunity cost - the value of the next best alternative sacrificed to produce the product.

The opportunity cost in the case is the worth of the offer to work elsewhere which is equal to $25,000

Economic profit = (7,000× 6) - 45,000- 25,000=$ (28,000)

Economic loss=$(28,000)