A student has a choice of 2 different full-time summer jobs for 12 weeks:
Job 1 is an office job - wages are $600 per week
cost of office job:
Gas: $40 per week
Parking: $20 per week
Lunch: $35 per week
Clothes: $350 one time cost
Laptop Computer: $600 one time cost
Job 2 is a lifeguard job at Jones Beach - wages are $220 per week.
costs of lifeguard job:
Gas: $20 per week
Lunch: $20 per week
1- Comment and answer:
a- The quantitative (net cost analysis) answers to your decision above
b- Name the qualitative factors that might influence you to choose the less paying job.
2- Identify, define and discuss the following with specific reference to above options:
a- Avoidable costs
b- Constraints
c- Differential costs
d- Relevant costs
e- Sunk costs