Scenario 9.2 Consider a Publicly Held Firm (One Whose Stock Shares Are

question 6

Multiple Choice

Scenario 9.2
Consider a publicly held firm (one whose stock shares are traded on the stock exchange) that earned revenue worth $350 million and incurred land, labor, and debt costs worth $320 million. The stockholders who have invested a total of $100 million in this firm could have earned 10 percent return on other comparable investments.
-When a firm incurs negative economic profit, it should:

• A)hire more laborers to make the business activity profitable.
• B)transfer the resources from its current use to other alternative uses.
• C)purchase additional raw materials to produce more output.
• D)transfer additional resources from other alternative uses to the current activity.
• E)continue to operate with the same resources.

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