Question: At the beginning of the year, an audio engineer quit his job and gave up a salary of $175,000 per year in order to start his own business, Sound Devices, Inc. The new company builds, installs, and maintains custom audio equipment for businesses that require high-quality audio systems. A partial income statement for Sound Devices, Inc. is shown below:

2007

Revenues:

Revenue from sales of product and services $970,000

Operating costs and expenses:

Cost of products and services sold 355,000

Selling Expenses 155,000

Administrative expenses 45,000

Total operating costs and expenses $555,000

Income from operations $415,000

Interest expense (bank loan) 45,000

Legal expenses to start business 28,000

Income taxes 165,000

New Income $177,000

To get started, the owner of Sound Devices spent $100,000 of his personal savings to pay for some of the capital equipment used in the business. In 2007, the owner of Sound Devices could have earned a 15 percent return by investing in stocks of other new businesses with risk levels similar to the risk level at Sound Devices.

1. What are the total explicit, total implicit, and total economic costs in 2007?
2. What is accounting profit in 2007?
3. What is economic profit in 2007?
4. Given your answer in part c, evaluate the owner's decision to leave his job to start Sound Devices.

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