Concepts Of Cost And Revenue
ICSE · Class 12 · Economics
Summary of Concepts Of Cost And Revenue for ICSE Class 12 Economics. Key concepts, important points, and chapter overview.
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Cost and revenue are the core ideas used to understand production, price, profit, and equilibrium. Cost of production means the cost of purchasing inputs such as wages, raw materials, rent, and interest. Economic cost is wider than accounting cost because it includes both explicit costs and implicit
Key Concepts
Cost of production means the cost
Cost of production means the cost of purchasing inputs. It includes payments such as wages, raw materials, rent, and interest.
Explicit cost is the actual money
Explicit cost is the actual money expenditure incurred on hired or purchased inputs. It is recorded in the business ledger and paid to outsiders.
Implicit cost is the imputed value
Implicit cost is the imputed value of self-owned or self-supplied resources such as the owner's building, own capital, and normal profit. No actual mo
Normal profit is the minimum reward
Normal profit is the minimum reward of the entrepreneur for organising business. It is the opportunity cost of entrepreneurship and is part of implici
Economic cost equals explicit cost plus
Economic cost equals explicit cost plus implicit cost, including normal profit.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the meaning of cost of production and economic cost
- Distinguish between explicit cost and implicit cost
- Explain opportunity cost, real cost, private cost, and social cost
- Separate fixed costs from variable costs and study their behaviour
- Calculate AFC, AVC, AC, MC, TR, AR, and MR using the given formulas
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