Jones Production Started Business with a Small Scale Plant

question 144

Short Answer

Jones Production started business with a small scale plant.Fortunately for Smith,the owner of Jones Production,the business grew rapidly.The table below gives the total costs and the associated output for each year.
a.Complete the table by finding the average cost for each scale.

b.Over what range of total product (output)did Jones Production experience economies of scale,constant returns to scale,and diseconomies of scale?

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Definitions:

Fair Value

The price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date.

Parent-Company Extension Method

An accounting approach used in consolidation, where the parent company's financial statements extend to include the subsidiary's transactions and balances.

Goodwill

Goodwill is an intangible asset that arises when a company acquires another business for more than the fair value of its net identifiable assets.

NCI

Non-Controlling Interest, which refers to the equity in a subsidiary not attributable, directly or indirectly, to the parent company.