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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 22: Factor Supply | Unit 3: Factor Supply
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Factor Cost Times Three
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- A set of useful concepts in the analysis of factor markets:
- Total factor cost is the opportunity cost incurred when using a given factor of production to produce a good or service.
- Total factor cost is used as the starting point for calculating the other two related measures:
- Average factor cost is the total factor cost per unit of factor input, found by dividing total factor cost by the quantity of factor input.
- The third factor cost concept is marginal factor cost.
- Marginal factor cost is the change in total factor cost resulting from a change in the quantity of factor input, found by dividing the change in total factor cost by the change in quantity of factor input.
- Marginal factor cost indicates how a firm's total factor cost is affected by hiring one more or one fewer factor.
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CURRENT PRODUCTION The production of final goods and services that takes place during a given time period. The emphasis here is on time period, especially the CURRENT time period. The macroeconomy's prime measure of current production is gross domestic product. Current production is best contrasted with transactions for past production and future production, both of which are excluded from gross domestic product.
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