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  2. Current account (balance of payments) - Wikipedia

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    The current account balance is one of two major measures of a country's foreign trade (the other being the net capital outflow). A current account surplus indicates that the value of a country's net foreign assets (i.e. assets less liabilities) grew over the period in question, and a current account deficit indicates that it shrank. Both ...

  3. Glossary of economics - Wikipedia

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    Also called resource cost advantage. The ability of a party (whether an individual, firm, or country) to produce a greater quantity of a good, product, or service than competitors using the same amount of resources. absorption The total demand for all final marketed goods and services by all economic agents resident in an economy, regardless of the origin of the goods and services themselves ...

  4. Current account - Wikipedia

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    Current account or Current Account may refer to: Current account (balance of payments), a country's balance of trade, net of factor income and cash transfers; Current account (banking), a checking account, held at a bank or other financial institution; Current account mortgage, a type of flexible mortgage loan

  5. Economics terminology that differs from common usage

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    Economists commonly use the term recession to mean either a period of two successive calendar quarters each having negative growth [clarification needed] of real gross domestic product [1] [2] [3] —that is, of the total amount of goods and services produced within a country—or that provided by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER): "...a significant decline in economic activity ...

  6. Understanding Current Assets: Definition, Types and ... - AOL

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    The current ratio divides current assets by current liabilities. For instance, Alphabet’s Q2 2024 balance sheet had $162.0 billion in current assets compared to $77.9 billion in current liabilities.

  7. Saving-investment balance - Wikipedia

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    EX-IM: current account. The national income identity can be rewritten as following: [2] + = where T is defined as tax. (Y-T-C) is savings of private sector and (T-G) is savings of government. Here, we define S as National savings (= savings of private sector + savings of government) and rewrite the identity as following:

  8. Definitions of economics - Wikipedia

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    James Stuart (1767) authored the first book in English with 'political economy' in its title, explaining it just as: . Economy in general [is] the art of providing for all the wants of a family, so the science of political economy seeks to secure a certain fund of subsistence for all the inhabitants, to obviate every circumstance which may render it precarious; to provide everything necessary ...

  9. Balance (accounting) - Wikipedia

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    In banking and accounting, the balance is the amount of money owed (or due) on an account. In bookkeeping, "balance" is the difference between the sum of debit entries and the sum of credit entries entered into an account during a financial period. [1] When total debits exceed the total credits, the account indicates a debit balance.