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Optimizing Models of After-Tax Earnings Incorporating Depletion Allowances

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

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A firm which produces a single product, whose production cost is a linear function of the production level and where net price per unit is constant, has a Pre-Tax Earnings function which is a linear function of the production level (see Figure I).

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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1967

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