Piece size
A piece size is a quantity in economics that considers an otherwise overall recorded quantity per piece (e.g. per product unit). As a result, completely different extreme points of the curve shape are often found.
A distinction is made between the following piece sizes:
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costs
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Unit cost
- variable unit costs:
- Fixed unit costs: (see also fixed cost degression )
- total (average) unit costs:
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Unit cost
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proceeds
- Unit revenue
- fixed unit revenue:
- variable unit revenue:
- total (average) unit revenue:
- Unit revenue
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Profit
- Unit contribution margin :
- average unit profit: