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Engineering Economics: Huma Fawad Hitec, Taxila FALL 2021
Engineering Economics: Huma Fawad Hitec, Taxila FALL 2021
LECTURE 5
HUMA FAWAD
HITEC , TAXILA
FALL 2021
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FIRM/BUSSINESS ENTITIES
Sole Proprietorship
Partnership
Corporation
Sole Proprietorship
Business owned by an
Advantages
– Ease of formation
individual
– Subject to few
Owner maintains title to regulations
assets and profits – No corporate income
taxes
Termination occurs on
Disadvantages
owner’s death or by
– Difficult to raise
owner’s choice capital
– Unlimited liability
– Limited life
Partnerships
Two or more owners Advantages
–Ease of formation
General Partnership
–Subject to few
Each partner is fully regulations
responsible for –No corporate income
liabilities taxes
–Easy to raise capital
Limited Partnerships
Disadvantages
–Unlimited liability
–Limited life
Partnerships
Limited Partnership and Limited Liability
Company
Allows one or more partners limited liability
based on amount of capital invested
Must have one general partner with unlimited
liability
Names of limited partners may not appear in
name of firm
Limited partners may not participate in
management decisions.
Corporation
Legally functions separate and apart from its owners
Can sue, be sued, purchase, sell, and own
property
Owners who dictate direction and policies
Elect a board of directors
Investors liability is restricted to amount of investment in
company
Unlimited life.Life continues with transfer of ownership
Taxed separately
Comparison of Organizational
Forms
Large growing firms choose the corporate
form
Limited liability
MICROECONOMICS
Firm’s Choice: Firm’s Costs and
Production Decision
A firm chooses:
What quantity of the good to produce,
The price of the good (sometimes...).
Firm’s decision depends on:
Costs of production.
The degree of competition in the market (if there
are more sellers, more competitive).
Firm’s Choice: Firm’s Costs and
Production Decision
Firm’s Objective
The goal of a firm is to maximize profits.
Total Revenue, Total Cost, and Profit
Total Revenue
The amount a firm receives for the sale of its
output. For a competitive firm, TR = P x Q
Total Cost
The market value of the inputs a firm uses in
production.
Economic Profit versus Accounting
Profit
Economic profit is not the same as
accounting profit. When calculating economic
profit, we include all opportunity costs
including hidden (implicit) costs.
Accounting profit (as it appears on balance
sheets) refers to the firm’s total revenue
minus only the firm’s open (explicit) costs.
Costs as Opportunity Costs
Fixed Variable
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Figure : Production Function
Quantity of
Output
(cookies
per hour)
150 Production function
140
130
120
110
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0 1 2 3 4 5
Number of Workers
Hired
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The Production Function
Marginal Product
The marginal product of labor (any input) is the
change in output produced by an additional
worker (additional input).
Output
MPL
Number of workers
The Production Function
Quantity of
Output
(cookies
per hour)
150 Production function
140
130
120
110
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0 1 2 3 4 5
Number of Workers
Hired
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Production Function and Total Cost: Cookie Factory
Fixed Variable
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The Various Measures Of Cost
Costs of production may be separated into fixed
costs and variable costs.
Fixed costs are those costs that do not change with
the quantity of output produced. Ex: Rent,
accountant’s wage, some taxes..
Variable costs are those costs that do change with
the quantity of output produced. Ex: Labor,
Electricity, Transportation,...
Fixed and Variable Costs
Total Costs
Total Fixed Costs (TFC)
TC = TFC + TVC
Table : Various Measures of Cost: Osman’s Lemonade
Stand
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Fixed and Variable Costs
Average Costs
Average costs can be determined by dividing the
firm’s costs by the quantity of output it produces.
Average cost answers the following question:
How much does it cost to produce one unit of a
good on average?
Fixed and Variable Costs
Average Costs
Average Fixed Cost (AFC) =Total Fixed Cost /
Qty
Average Variable Cost (AVC) =Total Variable
Cost / Qty
Average Total Costs (ATC) = Total Cost / Qty
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Marginal Cost
Marginal Cost
Marginal cost (MC) is the additional cost of
producing the last unit.
Marginal cost helps answer the following
question:
How much does it cost to produce an additional unit of
output?
Marginal Cost
Osman’s Lemonade Stand
Quantity Total Marginal Quantity Total Marginal
Cost Cost Cost Cost
0 $3.00 —
1 3.30 $0.30 6 $7.80 $1.30
2 3.80 0.50 7 9.30 1.50
3 4.50 0.70 8 11.00 1.70
4 5.40 0.90 9 12.90 1.90
5 6.50 1.10 10 15.00 2.10
Marginal Cost
( c h a n g e in to ta l c o s t) T C
M C
(c h a n g e in q u a n tity ) Q
Figure 4 Osman’s Total-Cost Curves
Total Cost
$15.00 Total-cost curve
14.00
13.00
12.00
11.00
10.00
9.00
8.00
7.00
6.00
5.00
4.00
3.00
2.00
1.00
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Quantity
of Output
(glasses of lemonade per hour)
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Figure 5 Osman’s Marginal-Cost Curve
Costs
$3.50
3.25
3.00
2.75
2.50
2.25
MC
2.00
1.75
1.50
1.25
1.00
0.75
0.50
0.25
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Quantity
of Output
(glasses of lemonade per hour)
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Cost Curves and Their Shapes
1.25 AVC
1.00
0.75
0.50
AFC
0.25
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Quantity
of Output
(glasses of lemonade per hour)
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Table 2 The Various Measures of Cost: Osman’s
Lemonade Stand
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Cost Curves and Their Shapes
1.25
1.00
0.75
0.50
0.25
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Quantity
of Output
(glasses of lemonade per hour)
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Cost Curves and Their Shapes
1.25
1.00
0.75
0.50
0.25
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Quantity
of Output
(glasses of lemonade per hour)
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Cost Curves and Their Shapes
Average
Total ATC in short ATC in short ATC in short
Cost run with run with run with
small factory medium factory large factory
$12,000
0 1,200 Quantity of
Cars per Day
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Figure 7 Average Total Cost in the Short and
Long Run
Average
Total ATC in short ATC in short ATC in short
Cost run with run with run with
small factory medium factory large factory ATC in long run
$12,000
10,000
Economies Constant
of returns to
scale scale Diseconomies
of
scale