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Some examples of opportunity costs are:

  • giving up your favorite movie to study (in order to get good grades). The opportunity cost is the movie that has been forgone.
  • attending Baseball training (in order to be a better player) instead of going to your favorite night club when the best artiste would be performing; the club has been forgone/opportunity cost/best next alternative.

Opportunity costs are the benefits you could have received by taking an alternative action.

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Opportunity cost is what you give up in order to get something else. Paying money is the opportunity cost for ice cream for example.


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An opportunity cost where money does not change hands does not count as a cost. An example of this is the owner's opportunity cost for an alternate employment, since money does not change hands.


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There are many ways in which you can show increasing opportunity cost on a graph. You could show it in comparison to satisfaction for example.


What is opportunity cost and can you provide an example to illustrate its concept?

Opportunity cost is the value of the next best alternative that is foregone when a decision is made. For example, if you choose to go to a concert instead of studying for an exam, the opportunity cost is the potential higher grade you could have achieved if you had studied instead.


The earnings that parents forgo to raise children are an example of?

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What is opportunity cost and opportunity benefit?

Opportunity cost is the cost that an opportunity presents. The opportunity benefit is the benefit of the opportunity that is being presented.


Is it possible to incur opportunity cost without spending any money?

Opportunity cost can also deal with time. For example, shopping at Wal-mart versus shopping at sears, Khols, and giant eagle will lower your opportunity cost. At Wal-mart you'll be able to find many of the items you'd typically be looking for when shopping (whether they are better or not is up to you). My point is that from this example, your opportunity cost is lower shopping at W-mart because you are saving time. In my opinion, opportunity cost means "time is money."


Define opportunity costs?

The cost of passing up the next best choice when making a decision. For example, if an asset such as capital is used for one purpose, the opportunity cost is the value of the next best purpose the asset could have been used for. Opportunity cost analysis is an important part of a company's decision-making processes, but is not treated as an actual cost in any financial statement.


Does an opportunity cost have value?

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