Showing posts with label makes benefits by applying opportunity cost. Show all posts
Showing posts with label makes benefits by applying opportunity cost. Show all posts

Friday, July 20, 2018

Concept of opportunity cost

OPPORTUNITY:
                            A situation that makes something to do possible ,called  Opportunity.
Cost:
         An monetary expenditure done on a product to gain more from the product , called Cost.
By seeing the above definition .we can say that ,
                 OPPORTUNITY COST:
                                                        A situation that makes to do possible things from which we can gain profit ,called opportunity cost.
                                     In simple words,
Opportunity lost called opportunity cost.
      
For example- A farmer has one field and he has a opportunity to grow rice and wheat .But rice is 40 rupees per kg and wheat is 60 rupees per kg .Then farmer think on it that if i will cultivate wheat and rice the cost incurred will be same, why could not i cultivate wheat ,which makes me rupees 20 per kg profit ,this possible situation makes to a farmer for opportunity cost, and leaved for cultivating rice makes opportunity lost for next opportunity cost.