Understanding National Accounts
By: François Lequiller and Derek Blades
Contributors: Blades, Derek
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9789264027657
Subjects: Economics
Description: This manual explains what GDP and GNI and their components are and what they mean. It shows how they are used and what they are used for. And it does this in an easily understood way. 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. It also has chapter on how national accounts data are gathered and the history of the national accounts system. Three special chapters examine national accounts in China, India, and the United States. Previously published only in French, this manual has been revised and expanded to have a truly global perspective.
Table of contents: title: The essential macroeconomic aggregates; title: Distinguishing between volume and price increases; title: International comparisons; title: Production: What it includes and excludes; title: Defining final uses of GDP; title: The household account; title: Business accounts; title: The financial and balance sheet accounts; title: The general government account; title: The input-output table and integrated economic accounts; title: The national accounts machinery; title: The national income and product accounts of the united states (NIPA); title: China's national accounts; title: India's national accounts; title: International systems of national accounts.