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What is meant by consumer surplus?

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Question added by georgei assi , مدير حسابات , المجموعة السورية
Date Posted: 2014/09/25
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by georgei assi , مدير حسابات , المجموعة السورية

The consumer surplus is the benefits of the different units of goods depending on the increase in these units. It is the phenomenon of diminishing marginal utility, and consumer balances, these are going to buy any unit, between the utility and the ability of money for it, and it stops when you buy Tsawehma.

VENKITARAMAN KRISHNA MOORTHY VRINDAVAN
by VENKITARAMAN KRISHNA MOORTHY VRINDAVAN , Project Execution Manager & Accounts Manager , ALI INTERNATIONAL TRADING EST.

Consumer Surplus  : An economic measure of consumer satisfaction, which is calculated by analyzing the difference between what consumers are willing to pay for a good or service relative to its market price. A consumer surplus occurs when the consumer is willing to pay more for a given product than the current market price.  

When a business is profitable, this will result in a continuing situation in which assets exceed liabilities. The extent to which this is true is called a surplus. Since assets may exist in various forms, this surplus may exist in various forms as well. One way in which such assets exist is in the form of cash or any other asset.  i.e. surplus available as a margin and safety. 

If the business is revalued or exchanged the willingness to pay the excess by a prospective buyer or a result of revaluation the increrase in money value of the business is the surplus available for it in real terms.

Mustafa Indorewala Mustafa Indorewala
by Mustafa Indorewala Mustafa Indorewala , Management Accountant , Horeca Trade LLC

A consumer suplus occurs when at a given period a consumer is willing to pay higher price for a product or services than the prvailing market rate for that product or services.

 

An is caculated by calculating the diff between what consumer is willing to pay and what is the market rates.

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