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Since the baseball diamonds would be located on city property, an opportunity cost of $1 million is included as the initial cost of both proposals.
However, it will also be necessary to go beyond this limited goal and to ensure that the composition of expenditures is in itself allocationally effi cient: whether the numerous goals and objectives determined by the governance/political process are being implemented with regard to the opportunity costs involved.
Even if cheaper apples are available on the other side of town, they may not be a good deal once you account for the opportunity cost of your time.
The potential alpha stocks are those blue chips with relatively lower required returns based on prevailing opportunity costs.
Proportional cost is key to the opportunity cost calculation because it serves as a consistent measure of the revenue forfeited due to suboptimal performance.
As with self-dealing, operating under an opportunity cost conflict (that is, exercising board power with incentives to redeploy capital and service) is not itself a breach of fiduciary duty.
The total cost of buying non-house assets, such as automobiles and boats, without using home equity loans, is often calculated by subtracting the terminal value of the asset from the sum of down payments, subsequent monthly loan payments, and the opportunity cost of the initial payments, over the entire loan payment periods which is assumed to be the same as the lease period.
Table 4 summarizes the estimated average and total care time for the population, along with estimated average opportunity cost. We estimate that informal caregiving amounts to 30.06 billion hours annually.
"What's the difference between opportunity cost and just cost?"--me
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Overbooking is sometimes used (especially by airlines and hotels) as a strategy to reduce opportunity cost. Although overbooking reduces the opportunity cost of unsold capacity, it substitutes a new opportunity cost (satisfying the displaced customer).

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