In: Economics
Business profit is: ▪ the residual of sales revenue minus the explicit accounting costs of doing business. ▪ a normal rate of return. ▪ economic profit. ▪ the return on stockholders' equity.
Before defining the meaning of business profit we need to understand the formula of calculating the normal profit
It is the difference of total revenue earned by the company and the total cost that is generated by the company
The total cost includes two type of cost that are explicit cost and implicit cost
Explicit cost of those cost which are recorded
For example salary of workers,electric electricity bill etc
But implicit cost are those cost which are also called opportunity cost and these are not included
So a business can choose whether to to insert the implicit cost or not but generally it does
The business profit is equal to the economic profit because economic profit is also given by the difference of total revenue, explicit cost and implicit cost
It is not calculated by the residual sales revenue but by the total revenue by the company
Rate of return is expressed in percentage but business profit is expressed in absolute value
The same goes for return on stockholders equity as well
Hence the correct answer here is option C that is economic profit