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  2. Cost–volume–profit analysis - Wikipedia

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    One can decompose total costs as fixed costs plus variable costs: = + Following a matching principle of matching a portion of sales against variable costs, one can decompose sales as contribution plus variable costs, where contribution is "what's left after deducting variable costs". One can think of contribution as "the marginal contribution ...

  3. Contribution margin - Wikipedia

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    In Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis, where it simplifies calculation of net income and, especially, break-even analysis.. Given the contribution margin, a manager can easily compute breakeven and target income sales, and make better decisions about whether to add or subtract a product line, about how to price a product or service, and about how to structure sales commissions or bonuses.

  4. Break-even point - Wikipedia

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    To do this, draw the total cost curve (TC in the diagram), which shows the total cost associated with each possible level of output, the fixed cost curve (FC) which shows the costs that do not vary with output level, and finally the various total revenue lines (R1, R2, and R3), which show the total amount of revenue received at each output ...

  5. Long run and short run - Wikipedia

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    Economists tend to analyse three costs in the short-run: average fixed costs, average variable costs, and average total costs, with respect to marginal costs. The average fixed cost curve is a decreasing function because the level of fixed costs remains constant as the output produced increases.

  6. Cost curve - Wikipedia

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    At a level of Q at which the MC curve is above the average total cost or average variable cost curve, the latter curve is rising. [10]: 212 If MC is below average total cost or average variable cost, then the latter curve is falling. If MC equals average total cost, then average total cost is at its minimum value. If MC equals average variable ...

  7. Marginal cost - Wikipedia

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    In economics, the marginal cost is the change in the total cost that arises when the quantity produced is increased, i.e. the cost of producing additional quantity. [1] In some contexts, it refers to an increment of one unit of output, and in others it refers to the rate of change of total cost as output is increased by an infinitesimal amount.

  8. Demand - Wikipedia

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    The price elasticity of demand is a measure of the sensitivity of the quantity variable, Q, to changes in the price variable, P. It shows the percent by which the quantity demanded will change as a result of a given percentage change in the price. Thus, a demand elasticity of -2 says that the quantity demanded will fall 2% if the price rises 1%.

  9. Perfect competition - Wikipedia

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    Competition reduces price and cost to the minimum of the long run average costs. At this point, price equals both the marginal cost and the average total cost for each good (P = MC = AC). The theory of perfect competition has its roots in late-19th century economic thought.