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Chapter 2, Problem 2P
To determine
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Concept Introduction:
Opportunity Cost: Opportunity cost is the opportunity lost by choosing one alternative over the other.
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Mark is currently earning $44,000 a year. He has worked for this firm for 5 years. He is considering a job that will increase his lifetime earnings by $240,000 but that requires a Ph.D. in finance. The job will mean also attending a full-time finance program for four years at an annual cost of $28,500. Mark already completed an MBA, for which he spent $86,000 in tuition and books. Would he take the job and attend the Ph.D. program? Calculate:
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Opportunity costs of this decision = $
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Travel Time Each Way (minutes)
Price of a Skirt
(Dollars per skirt)
Local Department Store
15
103
Across Town
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Neighboring City
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Juanita makes $16 an hour at work. She has to take time off work to purchase her skirt, so each hour away from work costs her $16 in lost income. Assume that returning to work takes Juanita the same amount of time as getting to a store and that it takes her 30 minutes to shop. As you answer the following questions, ignore the cost of gasoline and depreciation of her car when traveling.
Complete the following table by computing the opportunity cost of Juanita's time and the total cost of shopping at each location.
Store
Opportunity Cost of Time
Price of a Skirt
Total Cost
(Dollars)
(Dollars per skirt)
(Dollars)
Local Department Store
103
Across Town
87
Neighboring City
64
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Barney decides to quit his job as a corporate accountant, which pays $11,000 a month, and goes into business for himself as a certified public accountant.
He runs his business from his converted garage apartment, which he could rent out for $305 a month if he wasn’t using it as a home office. He must purchase office supplies worth $70 a month, and his monthly electricity bill has increased by $50 now that he is working out of his home office.
After six months of working from home, Barney has earned an average of $19,000 per month.
Instructions: Enter your answers as a whole number.
a. What are Barney’s monthly explicit costs?
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b. What are Barney’s monthly implicit costs?
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c. What are Barney’s monthly economic costs?
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