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    This document discusses cost concepts including: 1) Cost is the sum of explicit costs (direct costs), implicit costs (indirect costs), and normal profit. Explicit costs include things like wages and material purchases, while implicit costs estimate values of self-owned resources. 2) Total cost refers to all expenditures on factors of production and non-factors to produce a given quantity. It is the sum of total fixed costs and total variable costs. 3) Average cost is total cost per unit of output and is the sum of average fixed cost and average variable cost. Average fixed cost declines as output increases while average variable cost initially declines then rises with more output.

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    This document discusses cost concepts including: 1) Cost is the sum of explicit costs (direct costs), implicit costs (indirect costs), and normal profit. Explicit costs include things like wages and material purchases, while implicit costs estimate values of self-owned resources. 2) Total cost refers to all expenditures on factors of production and non-factors to produce a given quantity. It is the sum of total fixed costs and total variable costs. 3) Average cost is total cost per unit of output and is the sum of average fixed cost and average variable cost. Average fixed cost declines as output increases while average variable cost initially declines then rises with more output.

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    Delhi Public School, Bopal –Ahmedabad

    Unit 3: Producer Behavior and Supply

    Chapter-8 Costs

     Cost: It is the sum of direct (explicit cost) and indirect cost (Implicit cost), including Normal

    profit.

     Cost: Explicit cost + implicit cost + Normal Profit.

     Explicit Cost: Actual money expenditure incurred by a firm on the purchase and hiring the

    factor inputs for the production is called explicit cost. For example-payment of wages, rent,

    interest, purchases of raw materials etc.

     Implicit cost is the estimated cost of self-owned resources of the production used in

    production process, by the producer or estimated value of inputs supplied by owner itself. For

    example, estimate rent of self-owned Building, Estimated interest on self-supplied money by

    the owner.

     Total cost refers to total expenditure incurred on factor inputs and non-factor input by a firm
    on production of a given quantity of output.

     Total cost is the sum of total fixed cost and total variable cost
    o TC = TFC + TVC or TC = AC × Q

     Total fixed costs is the cost which remains constant at all levels of output. It is not zero even

    at zero output level. Therefore, TFC curve is parallel to X-axis.

    o TFC = TC – TVC or TFC = AFC × Q

     Total variable cost is the cost which vary with the quantity of output produced. It is zero at

    zero level of output. TVC curve is parallel to TC curve.

    o TVC = TC – TFC or TVC = AVC × Q.


     Average cost is per unit cost of production of a commodity. It is the sum of average fixed cost
    and average variable cost.

    o AC= TC/Q or AC= AFC AVC

     Average fixed cost is per unit fixed cost of production of a commodity.

    o AFC = TFC/ Q

    o AFC= AC-AVC

    o AFC goes on decreasing as the level of output increase. Shape of AFC is rectangular

    hyperbola.

     Average variable cost is per unit variable cost of production of a commodity

    o AVC = TVC/Q

    o AVC = AC – AFC

     Marginal Cost: It refers to change in TC, due to an additional unit of a commodity is

    produced. MC = TC/Q or MCn =TCn -TCn-1 But under short run, it is calculated from
    TVC.

    Relation Between Short-Term Costs

     Total cost curve and total variable cost curve remains parallel to each other. The vertical
    distance between these two curves is equal to total fixed cost

     TFC curve remains parallel to X-axis and TVC curve remains parallel to TC curve.

     With increase in level of output, the vertical distance between AFC curve and AC curve goes
    on increasing. On contrary the vertical distance between AC curve and AVC curve goes on

    decreasing because their difference is AFC which keep decreasing with increase in output but

    these two curves never intersect because average fixed cost is never zero.

     Relation between MC and AVC

    o When MC < AVC, AVC falls. 

    o When MC = AVC, AVC is minimum and constant 


    o When MC > AVC, AVC rises.

     Relation between MC and ATC

    o When MC < ATC, ATC falls. 

    o When MC = ATC, ATC is minimum and Constant 

    o When MC > ATC, ATC rises.

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