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Kanesha is an entrepreneur and has recently opened her first coffee shop, The Co

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Question

Kanesha is an entrepreneur and has recently opened her first coffee shop, The Coffee Cat. Kanesha pays $4,800 rent each month, $3,100 for monthly employee payroll, and $1,800 for supplies each month. She was planning on selling several of her own tables and chairs on Craigslist for $1,100, but instead she brought them to The Coffee Cat. Additionally, Kanesha quit working as an accountant where she was earning $61,000 per year to open up the shop. If the shop earns $150,000 in revenue this year, calculate annual:

Instructions: Enter your responses as a whole number. If you are entering any negative numbers be sure to include a negative sign (-) in front of those numbers. Hint: be sure to calculate explicit costs as annual costs.

a. Accounting profits. $ _____

b. Economic profits. $ ______

Explanation / Answer

Accounting Profit=150000-4800×12-3100×12-1800×12

=33600

Economic Profit=33600-61000-1100=-28500