UNIVERSITY OF GUYANA FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS ECN 213 - MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS COURSE OUTLINE SUMMER - 2010 LECTURER: Roger Rogers E-mail: rogers.roger@gmail.com INTRODUCTION Managerial Economics provides a foundation of economic understanding for use in managerial decision-making. Both microeconomic and macroeconomic relations have implications for this decision-making process. Since the demand for a firm’s products plays a major role in determining its
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Chapter Chapter 1: Introduction to Managerial Economics 1 Introduction to Managerial Economics CHAPTER SUMMARY Managerial economics is the science of directing scarce resources to manage cost effectively. It consists of three branches: competitive markets‚ market power‚ and imperfect markets. A market consists of buyers and sellers that communicate with each other for voluntary exchange. Whether a market is local or global‚ the same managerial economics apply. A seller with market
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Managerial economics as defined by Edwin Mansfield is "concerned with application of economic concepts and economic analysis to the problems of formulating rational managerial decision."[1] It is sometimes referred to as business economics and is a branch of economics that applies microeconomicanalysis to decision methods of businesses or other management units. As such‚ it bridges economic theory and economics in practice.[2] It draws heavily from quantitative techniques such as regression analysis and correlation
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Economics and Managerial Economics Economics may be defined as a branch of knowledge dealing with allocation of scarce resources among competing ends. Managerial Economics may be defined as application of eco for problem solving at corporate level. Factors affecting Managerial decision Often only pure logic does not contribute to decision making Human Factor Human behavioral considerations often influences a manager into compromising or moderation a decision which would otherwise have made
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Microeconomics: Principles‚ Problems‚ and Policies‚ 18th Edition I. Introduction to Economics and the Economy 1. Limits‚ Alternatives‚ and Choices © The McGraw−Hill Companies‚ 2009 IN THIS CHAPTER YOU WILL LEARN: 1 The definition of economics and the features of the economic perspective. 2 The role of economic theory in economics. 3 The distinction between microeconomics and macroeconomics. 4 The categories of scarce resources and the nature of the economizing problem. 5 About production possibilities
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------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- MG 640 Managerial Economics ------------------------------------------------- Homework Assignment | Week 1 Chapter 1: The Fundamentals of Managerial EconomicsFor this week read Chapter 1 and the Headline: Amcott Loses $3.5 Million: Manager Fired.Answer the following questions:Question 1. Page 27Levi Strauss & Co. paid $46‚532 for a 110-year-old pair of Levi’s jeans-the oldest known pair
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CHAPTER 1 Nature and Scope of Economics Nowadays‚ understanding of economic issues has become quite indispensable for all sections in the society. Everyone wants to get rich; wants to increase their wealth holding; wants to have hold over productive resources; wants to expand their business activities. People want to earn more and more profits‚ and exercise control over the market and other economic system; people want to raise their living standard and enjoy more and more consumption;
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Managerial economics as defined by Edwin Mansfield is "concerned with application of the economic concepts and economic analysis to the problems of formulating rational managerial decision."[1] It is sometimes referred to as business economics and is a branch of economics that appliesmicroeconomic analysis to decision methods of businesses or other management units. As such‚ it bridges economic theory and economics in practice.[2] It draws heavily from quantitative techniques such as regression analysis
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Managerial Accounting and the Business Environment Chapter 1 © 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. Learning Objective 1 Understand the role of management accountants in an organization. McGraw-‐Hill/Irwin Slide 2 Organizational Structure Decentralization is the delegation of decisionmaking authority throughout an organization. Corporate Organization Chart Board of Directors President Purchasing Personnel Vice President Operations Chief Financial Officer Controller
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decision making across the various functional areas of an organization Managerial accounting: the form of accounting concerned with providing information to managers for use in planning and controlling operations and for decision making Financial accounting: the form of accounting concerned with providing information to shareholders‚ creditors‚ and others outside the organization The work of managers and their need for managerial accounting information Every organization has managers – someone must
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