A rational business's main goal is always to maximize profits. As complicated as business processes can be, the end goal always remains reaching the maximum profit. There are many ways a company has ...

Businesses and their customers constantly balance costs and benefits. A customer comparing menu prices decides which meal will give him the most pleasure for the price. Business production goals must ...

Marginal cost helps predict company profit by analyzing cost to produce extra units. Investors use the gap between marginal cost and revenue to assess profitability. Technology firms, due to low ...

In our first blog post on basic economic concepts, we wrote about opportunity cost. Another basic concept central to economic analysis is the concept of marginal cost (as well as marginal revenue and ...

Conventional cost-benefit analysis incorporates the normally reasonable assumption that the policy or project under examination is marginal in the sense that it will not significantly change relative ...

Marginal cost is the added expense of producing one more unit. A horizontal marginal cost curve indicates consistent production costs. Businesses may aim to maintain horizontal costs to stabilize ...

Costs are a critical variable to consider when plotting business strategy. After all, if you can't recover the expenses required to create your product through revenue and profit, then the business ...