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ACCOUNTING COST: The actual outlays or expenses incurred in production that shows up a firm's accounting statements or records. Accounting costs, while very important to accountants, company CEOs, shareholders, and the Internal Revenue Service, is only minimally important to economists. The reason is that economists are primarily interested in economic cost (also called opportunity cost). That fact is that accounting costs and economic costs aren't always the same. An opportunity or economic cost is the value of foregone production. Some economic costs, actually a lot of economic opportunity costs, never show up as accounting costs. Moreover, some accounting costs, while legal, bonified payments by a firm, are not associated with any sort of opportunity cost.
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Lesson 4: Production Possibilities | Unit 2: The Schedule
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- How a production possibilities schedule is set up to display bundles of two different goods.
- How to work with and interpret a simple production possibilities schedule.
- How and why the production tradeoff between two goods reflects opportunity cost.
- The law of increasing opportunity cost and how it is indicated by increasing negative opportunity cost numbers in the production possibilities schedule.
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NEEDS The physiological or biological requirements for maintaining life, such as air, water, food, shelter, and sleep. Physiological needs are often contrasted with psychological wants that make life more enjoyable, but are not essential for existence.
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WFTU World Federation of Trade Unions
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