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As a leading authority on costs, you have been asked by the President of the Manufacturing Consortium Forum (MCF, Sumitomo Yoshimitsu), to prepare a speech in which you discuss economies of scale and diseconomies of scale and their respective sources.
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As a leading authority on costs, you have been asked by the President of the Manufacturing Consortium Forum (MCF, Sumitomo Yoshimitsu, to prepare a speech in which you discuss economies of scale and diseconomies of scale and their respective sources. Sumitomo would also like you to explain how costs differ in the short run from long run costs and what may cause them to change in both the short run and the long run. The term 'economies of scale' is used when a company's cost per unit of output falls as a result of the company's scale of production increasing. The cost per unit of output is the average overall cost of producing a single unit. All cost factors must be taken into account, such as overheads, labour, rents and rates. If the cost per unit of output exceeds the average cost per unit then the company will be making a...
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