Chapter 2
Multiple-Choice Questions
1. An individual’s value for a good or service is the:
B. The amount of money he or she is willing to pay.
2. The biggest advantage of capitalism is that:
D. It creates wealth by letting a person follow his or her own self-interest.
3. Wealth-creating transactions are more likely to occur:
D. all of the above
4. Government regulation:
A. provides incentives to conduct business in an illegal black market.
5. An example of a price floor is:
A. Minimum wages.
6. A price ceiling:
B. is an implicit tax on producers and an implicit subsidy to consumers.
7. Taxes:
D. all of the above
8. A consumer values a car at $30,000 and it cost a producer $20,000 to make the
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7- The fixed-cost fallacy occurs when :
D) both A and C
8- MR. D’s Barbeque of Pickwick, TN produces 10,000 dry-rubbed rib slabs per year. Annually MR. D’s fixed costs are $50,000. The average variable cost per slab is a constant $2. The average total cost per slab then is :
A) $7.
9- All the following are examples of variable cost, except :
C) Accounting fees
10- The U.S government bought 112,000 acres of land in Southeastern Colorado in 1968 for $17,500,000. The cost of using this land today exclusively for the reintroduction of the black-tailed prairie dog:
D) is equal to the total dollar value the land would yield if used for farming and ranching.
Individual Problems Ch.3
3-1 By attending the Bruce Springsteen concert you are losing the personal gratification of attending a U2 concert.
3-2 The total cost of attending the concert is $225 because if you were to sell the ticket that’s how much it would be worth.
3-3 They are using the sunk cost fallacy, what they original paid for the house should not be relevant to the current selling price.
3-4 The sooner the seller gets its money the faster he/she can reinvest it.
3-5 Additional hidden cost could include:
Liquor license, Freight for delivery of new products, cost of glasses to serve wine
3-6 The decision to drop should not be affected by
The correct answer is D, $700,000. The nonmanufacturing costs are the costs incurred to make the inventory are crossed out below. Notice that purchasing raw material is not the same thing as incurring a cost. You have simply traded one asset for another. You have not yet used it to make a product, or provide a service.
In the article “Concert Tickets Shouldn't Be So Freaking Expensive,” Elissa Sanci discusses her love for concerts and music but she argues that tickets have become too expensive. Sanci goes on to attack the artists themselves claiming that they are being too greedy and they need to cut ticket prices by half, she believes that the fans should be treated better, since we are the ones that support the artists and “not made to slave away working to be able to attend concerts”. In the end of the essay she goes on to say that no matter how expensive the concert tickets are she will continue to pay for them, even if it ends up coming to her having to sell an organ. The author doesn't do a very good job arguing for cheaper price tickets, instead she contradicts herself making the argument seem weak.
1- The total unit cost = Total Variable Cost + Production Fixed Expenses + Advertising Expense + Selling and Administrative Expense = 3.23 + 1.20 + 0.30 + 0.19 = 4.92.
The fourth pair of columns on a 10-column work sheet prepared at the end of the period would be the
14. If 11,000 units are produced, what are the total amounts of direct and indirect manufacturing costs incurred to support this level of production?
The major weakness in the survey was not targeting the core group of subscribers that the initial decline in attendance was targeted as a problem. Because the majority of the respondents had not been too a concert in several years, this information will do very little to discover why there has been a loss in season ticket holders year to year. Unfortunately a separate survey must be done at the next regularly scheduled event. This survey must concentrate on the following key areas:
The focus of EEC’s investment of the purchasing of the supplier is to cut down on
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million dollars. That is about two cents an acre. This land was a very rich farmland that
Explain the corresponding impact on total revenue for each of the three price ranges identified in part G.
a. For an annual volume of 12,000 tires, determine the total cost, total revenue, and profit.
production and sales of Product A is 2,000 units and of Product B is 3,000 units. There are three activity cost
For this assignment I chose to compare and contrast two concerts. The first concert is from the modern era, while the other is a Baroque Era concert originating from the 17th Century preformed by a modern day orchestra. The Baroque Era Concert takes place in a large modern day Lutheran Church in front of a small crowd of well dressed onlookers. The second concert that I chose for this assignment is a modern day rock concert from the English Symphonic Rock Band, Muse. This concert takes place at the O2 Sheppard’s Bush Empire Theatre in London, England. The crowd is large and ruckus, the concert is loud, bright, and energetic.
Company operates in the Industrial Sector – Services, and Industry – Regional Airlines. According to the Standard Industrial Classification System (SIC), company belongs to the industry group 451: Air
For instance, the concept of cost estimation which assists in estimating future expenditure as the expenditure depends on the cost of the respective activities can be applied in the setting of a budget which is simply an estimate and schedule of all costs required to be assigned to an activity. One can make an estimation of the resources required for an activity by applying the cost estimation techniques. Since there are limiting factors to each activity such as scarcity of resources for activities, the concept of constraints can be applied together with the concept of cost volume profit analysis to ensure that maximum benefits are driven from the scarce resources and the number of activities that are available. This facilitates the allocation of resources that most equitable and profitable. The theory of constraints is also applicable in the process of setting up budgets. In setting up budget one considers the amount of resources that are available and cannot therefore set a budget plan that exceeds the amount of resources that are available. This implies that the budget is constrained by the amount of