Question

A business owner makes 1,000 items a day. Each day she contributes eight hours to produce those items. If hired, elsewhere she could have earned $250 an hour. The item sells for $15 each. Production does not stop during weekends. If the explicit costs total $150,000 for 30 days, the firm's accounting profit for the month equals

Answer 1

Accounting profit=$300,000

Step-by-step explanation:

Accounting profit is the difference between revenue from from production or service activities and the expenditures incurred.

It is the difference between the total revenue and the total explicit costs. Explicit costs are those transaction cost incurred to generate revenue . E.g the cost of the material , labour, expenses e.tc.

On the other hand, economic profit includes accounting profit plus opportunity cost. Opportunity cost is the value of the benefits sacrificed in favour of a decision.

Accounting profit = Sales revenue - Explicit cost

Sales revenue = Price × units sold= $15× 1000× 30 = $450,000 1

Explicit cost = $150,00

Accounting profit = $450,000- 150,000 = $300,000

Accounting profit=$300,000

Note we ignore the amount she could have earned because it is an implicit cost