If the owner of the drugstore hired a manager for $10 an hour to take his place, how much of a change would show up in: Instructions: Enter your responses as a whole number. If you are entering any negative numbers be sure to include a negative sign (-) in front of those numbers. a. Accounting profits per month? b. Economic profits per month?
If the owner of the drugstore hired a manager for $10 an hour to take his place, how much of a change would show up in: Instructions: Enter your responses as a whole number. If you are entering any negative numbers be sure to include a negative sign (-) in front of those numbers. a. Accounting profits per month? b. Economic profits per month?
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Transcribed Image Text:If the owner of the drugstore hired a manager for $10 an hour to take his place, how much of a change would show up in:
Instructions: Enter your responses as a whole number. If you are entering any negative numbers be sure to include a negative sign (-)
in front of those numbers.
a. Accounting profits per month?
b. Economic profits per month?
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Transcribed Image Text:Refer to the table below to answer two questions. The table shows the monthly economic profit of a drugstore.
Total (gross) revenues per month
$ 27,000
less explicit costs:
Cost of merchandise sold
$ 17,000
Wages to cashier, stock, and delivery help
2,500
Rent and utilities
800
Тахes
700
Total explicit costs
$ 21,000
Accounting profit (revenue minus explicit costs)
$ 6,000
less implicit costs:
Wages of owner-manager, 300 hours @ $10 per hour
3,000
Return on inventory investment, 10% per year on $120,000
1,000
Total implicit costs
$
4,000
Economic profit (revenue minus all costs)
$
2,000
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