Your aunt is thinking about opening a hardware store. She estimates that it would cost $500,000 per year to rent the location and buy the stock. In addition, she would have to quit her $50,000 per year job as an accountant.
Opportunity cost can be defined as sacrifice for the individual, company or government. The opportunity cost of obtaining products or services is a forgiving option. For a person who aims to maximize his benefit from his limited available resources, he must allocate these limited resources to those who are most important. Opportunity Costing helps a person make good use of their scarce resources. .
Opportunity cost is also important for a company because the company has to allocate its limited available raw materials to produce a certain product with high demand at the expense of other products that are less demanding.
