COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus.: Assgniment:-1
COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus.: Assgniment:-1
COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus.: Assgniment:-1
ASSGNIMENT :- 1
SECTION: B
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A: ECONOMICS:
Economics is a science which deals with introduction and consumption
of goods and services distribution for the welfare of humans.
Economics deals with how individuals, businesses, governments, and
nations make choices about how to allocate resources. Economics focuses on the
actions of human beings, based on assumptions that humans act with rational
behavior, seeking the most optimal level of benefit or utility. Firms and
Households are the two major part of the flow of economy. The households
provides the firms with resources for the production of goods and services such as
labour, raw material, etc. In return the firms pay them money. While the firms
refine the resources and sell them off to the households for which the households
pay the firms.
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2. Illustrate the effect of prices on demand and supply: Illustrate with the
help of a diagram.
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GRAPH:
Supply and demand rise and fall until an equilibrium price is reached, and
here Equilibrium can be defined as the price-quantity pair where the quantity
demanded is equal to the quantity supplied, represented by the intersection
of the demand and supply curves.
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INCOME OF PEOPLE:
If the income of the people is high in an economy the demand is
high as the people have more disposible income to spend. If the income of
people is low than people have less to spend on unnecessary tems hence
demand is low.
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WEATHER:
Some seasonal products such as fruits, fabrics, etc are high in
supply in certain seasons and low in supply for the rest of the year, this has
nothing to do with price or demand but just the timing and weather.
TECHNOLOGY:
With invoation in technology it is easier to produce certain
products with help of machines which are much faster than labour and hence
the supply increases.
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A: EFFICIENCY:
It is generally defined as the ratio of output to input.
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5. What are the ways by which the economic efficiency can be improved?
1) Decrease the amount of wastage inorder to gain more output for the same
level of input.
2) Using cheaper raw material with similar qaulities in order to reduce
production cost.
3) Identify a joint product which can be produced with the scraps or wastage of
the main product which can be produced with low cost but can be sold for
good selling price.
4) Introduce a better mix of products which will generate more revenue with the
same level of input.
5) Utilize resources more effectively.
6) Increased output for the same input.
7) Decreased input for the same output.
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1. Contribution
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SOLUTION
1) The Break - Even Sales Quantity = Fixed cost / sales − variable costs
= 40, 00, 000 / 500 – 300
= 20,000 units
2) The Break –Even sales = (Fixed cost / sales − variable cost) × selling
price per unit
= (4,000, 000 / 500 – 300) x 500
= (4,000, 000 / 200) x 500
= 10, 000, 000
3) If the actual production Quantity is 120,000, find the following
a) Contribution = Sales – variable cost
= 120,000 x 500 - 120,000 x 300
= 60,000,000 – 36,000,000
= 24,000,000
b) Margin of Safety:
1). MOS = Sales - Break Even Sales
= 120,000 x 500 – 10,000,000
= 60,000,000 - 10,000,000
= 50,000,000
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i. Contribution
ii. BEP
iii. Profit
iv. Margin of safety
SOLUTION:
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Contribution = 165,000
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