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National accounts broadly present output, expenditure, and income activities of the economic actors (households, corporations, government) in an economy, including their relations with other countries' economies, and their wealth (net worth).
The SNA describes a coherent, consistent and integrated set of macroeconomic accounts in the context of a set of internationally agreed concepts, definitions, classifications and accounting...
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The specific methods of accounting used in national account systems are characterized by a completeness and consistency that is required by detailed double-entry bookkeeping, also known as double-entry accounting. Double-entry bookkeeping is aptly named as it calls for every entry to an account to have a corresponding and opposite entry into a diff...
The systems of national accounting measure output, expenditure, and income of all major economic players in the nation's economy from households to corporations to the nation's government. The production categories of national accounts are usually defined as output in currency units by various industry categories plus imports. Output is usually app...
Perhaps the most widely recognized values measured in national accounts are the aggregate measures like gross domestic product or GDP. Even among non-economists, GDP is a familiar measure of the size of the economy and aggregate economic activity. Though national accounts provide a plethora of economic data, it is still these aggregate measures lik...
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National accounts consist of a systematic presentation of estimated money value of these and other such macroeconomic aggregates relating to national income and wealth.
It approaches national accounts from a truly global perspective, with special chapters dedicated to international comparisons, globalisation and well-being as well as to the national systems used in major OECD economies, such as the United States.
Opening with a chapter showing how national accounts concepts relate to macroeconomics, the books goes on to systematically deal with volume and prices, international comparability, production, final uses, household accounts, business accounts, government accounts, and financial accounts.
National accounts are a system of accounts and balance sheets that provide a broad and integrated framework to describe an economy, whether a region, a country, or a group of countries such as the European Union (EU).
