As you have worked as a real estate agent for 10 years as well as are earning about $100,000 every year with your current agency. You arranged the subsequent information to use in evaluating the financial feasibility of starting your own agency:

Revenues produced throughout the 1st year of operations: $1.5 million

Salaries and other labor costs paid to employees during the first year of operations: $1 million

Operating expenses (e.g., rent, communications: $150,000

Equipment purchases: $100,000 with a 5 year straight line depreciation

You need $100,000 in equity, which you can withdraw from your bank account that is currently paying 2% per year in interest, and a $400,000 loan with a 15% interest rate.

a. From your proposed agency what is your expected pretax accounting profit?

b. From your proposed agency what is your expected pretax economic profit?

c. Identify the explicit versus implicit costs.