Cost Tutorial Learning Objectives

After completing this tutorial the learner will be able:

  •  to calculate all the costs of production given all or part of the data
  •  to graph all the cost curves
  •  to read a cost curve
  •  to explain how an increase/decrease in costs affects all the total cost curves
  •  to explain how an increase/decrease in costs affects all the average cost curves
  •  to explain how an increase/decrease in costs affects all the total cost tables
  •  to explain how an increase/decrease in costs affects all the average cost tables
  •  to calculate the marginal cost
  •  to graph the marginal cost curve
  • to interpret the relationship between the curves and tables