The Private Firm

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Average Cost
Total cost/output
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Average fixed costs
Downward sloping line (from left to right) as the fixed costs are shared amoung increasing output
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Average revenue
total revenue/quantity sold
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Average variable
Initially downward sloping as increasing returns to labour and economies of scale are achieved with increased output and then they rise with output
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Break-even point
total revenue = total cost (no profit or loss made)
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Co-operative
Organisation owned by its workers and they share the rewards
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Costs
the money paid to produce the g/s
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Diseconomies of scale
When an increase in the scale of production results in increased average costs
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Diminshing returns to labour
the allocation of workers to specific tasks in the production line
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Division of labour
the allocation of workers to specific takes
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Economies of scale
When output increases leads to reduced total average costs
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Firm
The company/business that owns one or more factories
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Fixed Costs
Have to be paid regardless of levels of production
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Horizontal integration
merging firms at the same stages of production
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Increasing returns to labour
initially as additional workers are employed their marginal output increases
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Industry
A group of firms producing similar or same goods
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Marginal cost
The additional cost of producing an extra unit
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Marginal product
Additional output gained from the employment of an additional worker
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Marginal Revenue
The additional revenue gained from selling an extra unit
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Monopoly
Single firm controls the supply in a market with no competitors
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Multinational Co-orporation
Company that has outlets in more than one country
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Normal Profit
Profit level just high enough to keep firms in the industry
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Oligopoly
Small number of large companies control the market
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Partnership
A jointly owned business
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Primary Industry
Extracting raw materials
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Private Limited Company
Owned by shareholders, but shares are sold privately not on the stock exchange
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Productivity
Output per worker
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Profit
Revenue - costs
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Public Limited Company
Owned by the shareholders from the stock exchange
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Revenue
Total money obtained from sales
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Secondary industry
Manufacturing or construction
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Sole-trader
Single owner of a buiness, usually small scale
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Super-normal profit
Increased demand in an industry leads firms to make above normall profits
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Tertiary industry
Provide a service
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Total Cost
Fixed costs + variable costs
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Total Revenue
Price X Output
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Variable costs
Dependent on the level of production
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Vertical Intergration
merging of firms that are involved in the production of the same product but a different stages
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Downward sloping line (from left to right) as the fixed costs are shared amoung increasing output

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Average fixed costs

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total revenue/quantity sold

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Initially downward sloping as increasing returns to labour and economies of scale are achieved with increased output and then they rise with output

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Card 5

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total revenue = total cost (no profit or loss made)

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