What to Keep. After all creditors, taxing authorities and beneficiaries of the estate have been paid, the estate may be closed. How long the process of closing an estate will take varies from case to case. Generally, anyone making a claim against the estate must do so within a specified time frame.
Consumer surplus (Graph illustrating consumer (red) and producer (blue) surpluses on a supply and demand chart) Consumer surplus or Consumer's surplus (or in the plural Consumers' surplus) is the difference between the price consumers are willing to pay (or reservation price) and the actual price. If someone is willing to pay more than the actual price, their benefit in a transaction is how much they saved when they didn't pay that price.
Graphically, producer surplus is the shaded region just above the supply curve, but below the equilibrium price level. Key Terms. producer surplus: The amount that producers benefit by selling at a market price that is higher than the lowest price at which they would be willing to sell. Producer surplus is the difference between what price producers are willing and able to supply a good for and what price they actually receive from consumers. It is the extra money, benefit, and/or utility producers get from selling a product at a price that is higher than their minimum accepted price, as shown by the supply curve.