Business Objectives

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Define normal profits
The return needed for the firm to stay in the market in the long run
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Define abnormal profits
Profits above normal profits
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What is condition for profit maximisation
MR=MC
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Define corporate social responsibility
Actions that a firm takes in order to demonstrate its commitment to behaving in the public intrest
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Define stakeholders
A group of people with an interest in the activity and actions of a business eg managers, employees, local community
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What is the principal agent problem
Arises between conflcits between the objectives of the shareholders (principals) and their managers (agents) who make decisions on their behalf
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What is the three possible conditions for sales revenue maximisation
MR=0, AR=AC or TR=TC
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What is the conditions for normal profit
AR=AC
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How can you tell if a firm is making abnormal profit
When AR>AC
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How can you tell if a firm is making a loss
When AR
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How can you tell if a firm is making normal profit
Whem AR=AC
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Define satisfying behavior
Where the managers of firms aim to produce satisfactory results in terms of profit, rather than trying to maximise them
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What is utility maximisation
Where managers set out to maximise their own benefit
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What is x-efficiency
When a firm is not operating at the minimum average cost because of organisational slack
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What makes up economic efficiency
Productive efficiency & allocative efficiency
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What makes up productive efficiency
Technical efficiency & cost efficiency
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What is the condition for allocative efficiency
Where MSB=MSC
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Define abnormal profits

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