What Is Manegerial Economics?
Businesses use economics for planning out their production, demand and supply functions. Economics is divided into two types--macro and micro. Macro economics is the study and analysis of aspects such as inflation, growth rates and unemployment that have a direct bearing on a country’s functioning. Micro economics is the study of the behavior of consumers and firms operating in an industry. Managerial economics is a subset of micro economics. Firms use this for knowledgeable decision making.
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Features
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Managerial economics is used to allocate the available limited resources to their most optimum use. All over the world, businesses use managerial economics to ascertain what to produce, in what numbers, the manner in which to produce, the scheduling and sequencing, what levels of inventories to hold, and how to market the product. The main intent is to focus on the methods that maximize returns and curtail costs and losses.
Function
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There are often many means and methods of accomplishing the same tasks. By using managerial economics, the firm ensures that they choose the most suitable ones available. The company analyzes the actual demand of the company’s product. In case they find that there is more demand than what the company is currently supplying, they make changes to the existing production. They devise ways in which the company can produce more at the existing costs. In case it is found after analysis that the current supply is the actual demand for the product, the company devises ways to produce the same quantity at lower rates. The company also analyzes routes to make the product known and available to a greater number of consumers.
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Techniques
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Analysts depend extensively on mathematical and scientific tools for their work. These tools include pricing and production functions and regression and risk analysis. Pricing function establishes for the company the most appropriate price at which the greatest number of customers would be willing to buy the company’s products. The production function likewise establishes the fitting and apt quantities of production. Regression analysis measures the company’s levels of tolerance to external factors such as rises in price of raw materials and taxes. Risk analysis is for studying the risks prevalent in production, marketing and supply functions.
Benefits
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Using managerial economics, the company decides on the best trade-off it has for all its strategic functions such as production, marketing, finance, HR and IT. The firm is able to achieve economies of scale and specialization by apportioning all its resources in the best possible manner. The company knows where to procure its funds from and where best to invest its own money after a careful analysis of rates and returns.
Considerations
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The firm must select and train the employees who will be conducting the managerial economics studies. The employees must be apprised of both the practical and theoretical aspects of business economics and the business as a whole.
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