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Classify each statement as true or false. a firms economic profit can be different from its accounting profit

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True

Step-by-step explanation:

Accounting profit only considers actual revenues and expenses incurred. E.g. I own a small store and sold $300,000 last year and made $40,000 in net profits.

But economic profit also considers opportunity costs. Following the same example, I earned $40,000 by working on my store but lost the wages that I earned form my last job since I quitted to open my own business. That lost salary = $36,000, so my economic profit from operating the store = $40,000 - $36,000 = $4,000

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