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• Relevant Costs for Operating Decisions

  
  Accounting-financial-tax.com offers bookkeeping journal entry basic accounting financial accounting management accounting tax accounting cash management accounting cost accounting financial ratio budget forecasting — Authority: 129
  Operating decisions imply an understanding of costs. Among cost distinctions, “relevant costs” is broadly used for operating decision. Relevant costs are the future, incremental cash flows that result from a decision. Relevant costs specifically do not include sunk costs, i.e. costs that have been incurred in the ...
  22 hours ago

• Follow-up

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 130
  Rather than update existing posts, Im going to follow-up on two items from yesterday. The first relates to yesterdays post about the "Agent-Principal Problem." In addition to the clip from The Office linked in yesterdays post, you might want to look at this piece from yesterdays edition of The Wall Street ...
  6 days ago

• Options, Choice and Exchange

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 130
  This strip would seem to indicate that too many options can create problems when making choices. It also illustrates that some dont see voluntary exchange as a "win-win".  One suspects some information asymmetries here.
  6 days ago

• Shopping - More Is Less

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 130
  According to stories from The Washington Post   and The Wall Street Journal  (subscriber content at time of writing), more of you were out there on Friday, but you spent less. Lets see how Cyber Monday goes, as well as the rest of the shopping season.
  1 week ago

• "Opportunity Cost" at Notre Dame

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 130
  My friends know Im a college football fan. And one of the top stories this weekend is the fate of Notre Dame head-coach, Charlie Weis. The Wall Street Journal included this piece in todays edition. It basically shows what else could have been purchased with the compensation Coach Weis is expected to take with ...
  1 week ago

• For the Day After...

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 130
  Macro impacts of micro decisions and "no, Im not shopping today."
  1 week ago

• A iPhone Money App That I Would Buy

  
  Personal Finance Advice — Authority: 467
  I don’t have an iPhone (I don’t even have a cell phone, but that’s a whole other story), but if I did, I would definitely buy the Opportunity Cost of Money iPhone app. This iPhone app makes the cost of your purchases concrete. Basically, it’s an iPhone app where you list all of the things [...]
  1 week ago

• A iPhone Money App That I Would Buy

  
  SavingAdvice.com Blog — Authority: 127
  I don’t have an iPhone (I don’t even have a cell phone, but that’s a whole other story), but if I did, I would definitely buy the Opportunity Cost of Money iPhone app. This iPhone app makes the cost of your purchases concrete. Basically, it’s an iPhone app where you list all of the things [...]
  1 week ago

• Question For AutoBrag: Depreciation of Different Cars

  
  AutoBrag Blog — Authority: 154
  Question From Larry: why is the 5 year cost of owning a kia sorento so much higher than the cost of the jeep patriot? Queen of the Road: Welcome to AutoBragBlog, Larry! Here’s a good tool from AOL that shows yearly depreciation for every car and the total cost of owndership. It breaks down evey detail ...
  1 week ago

• Happy Thanksgiving

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 130
  By way of Ezra Klein at The Washington Post . Enjoy your holiday.
  1 week ago

• Just in Time for Black Friday...

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 130
  there is a series on Big Think on The Science of Savings . I will have to admit, I just found it and Ive not had time to do more than peruse it.  But the subjects and the people being interviewed are both enough to draw my attention.  If its half as good as I think it will be, it should offer some useable ...
  1 week ago

• Decision-Tree for Fast Food

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 130
  Here is an interesting "decision-tree" matrix on fast food (HT to Chartporn ). Some of the questions might make it inappropriate for some classes. But you may get a chuckle out of it. And if you do find it usable, all the better. I welcome your thoughts on its usability.
  1 week ago

• A Bit of Macro over the Weekend

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 130
  I ran across two items that might be of interest to you. The first is a paper from a pair of Harvard professors. (HT to Greg Mankiw .) Their research is noteworthy for its conclusion: "Fiscal stimuli based upon tax cuts are more likely to increase growth than those based upon spending increases." Their ...
  2 weeks ago

• Religion as an Economic Institution

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 130
  Regular readers of this blog know one of my interests is the impact of economic institutions (the rules and organizations of a system) on our decision-making. Among the effects I find most interesting are those that are rooted in what I call "informal rules." These include beliefs and personal codes of conduct that we ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Opportunity Cost

  
  bigMETHOD — Authority: 117
  We get asked regularly by clients and friends, “what should I be doing with my time online?”  That is a really tough thing to answer because it is always case by case but the goal and real answer to this is hopefully as little as you really need to (yes, while maintaining a level of quality…). There is so much ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cash 4 Clunkers

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 130
  National Public Radios Planet Money blog has an interesting podcast assessing the effectiveness of the "Cash for Clunkers" program. Its about 15 minutes long, so you can download it to your mp3 player, and get through it relatively quickly. Do you think it was effective? Did it increase sales or just shift ...
  3 weeks ago

• A huge entrepreneurial lesson I wish I learned 10 years ago

  
  Damn, I Wish I'd Thought of That! — Authority: 501
  Every business decision is a choice about how to use a resource. You have a finite amount of time, people, tools, and cash. Use them well and you thrive. Use them poorly and you stagnate.It comes down to a simple choice: I could use this $100 thing for project A or project B. Both are [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Something Light

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 130
  First, its important to remember that our wants are endless . Second, opportunity cost differs from person to person and is relative.
  3 weeks ago

• Richard Russell: 6 Reasons to Invest in Gold

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 142
  The paragraphs below are excerpts from Richard Russell’s latest Dow Theory Letters , arguing the case for gold bullion. “Today I ask myself, where would I rather have my subscribers be - loaded up in the Dow Jones Industrial Average or loaded up with gold?. And in all honesty, I believe they are better off in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Squeezing the Providers, Part I

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 437
  The political left in the United States, and for that matter, throughout the world, only knows two ways to try to control health care costs: (1) squeeze the providers and (2) deny patients care. Since they don’t believe in markets or economic incentives or entrepreneurship (the way costs are controlled in other ...
  3 weeks ago

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