You are certain that a normal rate of profit is 18% for the fast-food industry. What is your estimate of a normal rate of profit in the computer software industry, which is considered to be much riskier than the computer industry?
Situation 1:
You are the owner an only employee of a company that writes computer software that is used by doctors to bill patients. Last year you earned a total revenue of $90,000. Your costs for equipment, rent, and supplies were $60,000. To start this business you quit a job at another computer software firm that paid $40,000 a year.
A yearly normal profit for your computer software firm would be