National Income Accounting

NATIONAL INCOME ACCOUNTING
CFS 4204
MUNGWINI N
SD 45 DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE
TEL:09 282842-2097
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
• The course will examine the complete circular flow model

and measuring the national income. The income and
expenditure approaches will be covered.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
• describe the purpose of National Income Accounting in
the economy
• discuss the nature of national income and social
accounting
• analyse the national income accounts: transaction with
the rest of the world
• critic national income accounts: government activity
COURSE OBJECTIVES
• discuss national income accounts: problems of
classification and definition
• assess the link between the National Income Accounting
and the Circular Flow of Economic Activities
• apply the concept of Gross National Product (GNP) and
Net National Product (NNP) to the National Income
Accounting
COURSE OBJECTIVES
• discuss the measurement of the real national product
• analyse the Income approach and Expenditure approach
and link them to the National Income.
• evaluate the use of index numbers
• outline the Lewis Model and manipulate it to the National
Income Accounting
• discuss the limitations of National Income Accounting
WHAT IS NATIONAL INCOME ACCOUNTING?
• is the technique used to measure the overall production of
the economy and other related variables for the nation as
a whole.
What is the purpose of National Income
Accounting
• To obtain some measure of the performance of the
aggregate economy.
ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
• The performance of an economy is usually assessed in
terms of the achievement of economic objectives. These
objectives can be long term, such as sustainable growth
and development, or short term, such as the stabilisation
of the economy in response to sudden and unpredictable
events, called economic shocks.
MEASURES OF ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
• Economic Measures: • Non-Economic

• -Growth(GDP) Measures:
• -Inflation • -Quality of life
• -Unemployment • -Environment
• -BOP • -Health
• -Exchange Rate • -Education
GDP-PER CAPITA
RANK COUNTRY GDP-PER
CAPITA(PPP)$
1 QATAR 102 100
7 SINGAPORE 62 400
9 NORWAY 55 400
14 UNITED STATES 52 800
29 GERMANY 39 500
34 UNITED KINGDOM 37 300
58 EQUATORIAL GUINEA 25 700
64 PORTUGAL 22 900
69 POLAND 21 100
72 GABON 19 200
77 RUSSIA 18 100
82 BOTSWANA 16 400
108 SOUTH AFRICA 11 500
196 ZAMBIA 1 800
227 ZIMBABWE 600
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COUNTRIES WITH HIGHEST QUALITY OF LIFE
RANK COUNTRY
1 NORWAY
2 AUSTRALIA
3 NETHERLANDS
4 UNITED STATES
5 NEW ZEALAND
6 CANADA
7 IRELAND
8 LIECHTENSTEN
9 GERMANY
10 SWEDEN
A general description of economic activity
• One general description of the economic activity of a

given region is provided by a numerical statement of the
results of that activity in the form of a statistical estimation
of the value of total 'production' of goods and services
over a particular period of time and of its allocation as
between 'consumption' on the one hand and 'adding to
wealth' or 'investment' on the other.
• By 'production' we mean the organisation of human

activity with the object of bringing into existence, at given
places and times, valuable goods and services.
• 'Production' in this sense does not necessarily imply the

making of the commodity: it is 'production' to move a
commodity already in existence-perhaps a natural gift of
nature-to another place, or to hold it through time if,
thereby, value is added.
• By 'consumption' we mean the enjoyment, usually

accompanied by some measure of physical destruction, of
the fruits of production in a way that satisfies the wants of
members of the community.
• Consumption may take the form of enjoyment of

commodities by the members of individual households or
of public consumption in which certain needs, such as
those for education, street cleaning, or defence, are paid
for collectively through the medium of the State rather
than by direct purchases by individuals in their personal
capacity.
• 'Adding to wealth' or 'investment' or 'capital formation'
arises to the extent that commodities produced in a given
period are not consumed in that period, thus remaining
available for future consumption, or for use in the
production of other goods and services for future
consumption.
• In the course of a given period, some of the economic

resources in existence at the beginning of the period will
be used up through a running down of the stocks of raw
materials or finished or partly finished goods available at
the beginning of the period; and by the physical
deterioration of the type of goods used for production that
we call 'capital equipment' or 'fixed capital', such as plant
and machinery; and both kinds of resources may lose
value through 'obsolescence'-that is, changes in tastes of
final consumers, or improvements in methods of
production of competitors.
•
• gross investment' refers to the gross investment in fixed

capital. If, however, a deduction is made for 'wear and
tear' and obsolescence of capital equipment-that is, of
'fixed capital' -the resulting figure is called 'net
investment'. Such a deduction is commonly called
'depreciation'.
•
• deduction is commonly called 'depreciation'.

• If we neglect transactions with foreigners, we can
summarise the economic activity of a region by using the
following simple identities (an identity is an equation which
must always be true, whatever values are given to the
individual symbols) where all the quantities relate to
values: Production, or, in technical language, gross
national product= consumption plus gross
investment=consumption plus net investment plus
depreciation.
• This can also be written:

• Gross national product minus depreciation=net national
product= national income= consumption plus net
investment.
• One of the main statistical problems arising from any

attempt to assign numerical magnitudes in this kind of
description of economic activity is associated with the
attempt to reduce all the various components of the gross
national product, consisting of a multifarious variety of
goods and services from bus rides to seismographs, to
value terms.
• However, the fact that, in developed economies at least,

commodities are, in general, not consumed or disposed of
by the persons who individually produce them, but are
exchanged for a common medium, money, simplifies the
problem to some extent, for there are a multitude of
records of such exchanges expressed in value terms.
•
• The idea of a general description of economic activity in

terms of a record of national production or output, and its
disposal, is part of the classical tradition in economics
whereby 'economic welfare' is related to changes in the
'real' output of goods and services, that is to the value of
the output, adjusted for changes in the general price level.
Simple system of national income accounts
• Studies of the national product are concerned with

obtaining a measurement of the aggregate results of
economic activity in a given period. A more recent
development has been the statistical description of
economic activity in such a way that the formation and
disposal of national product is traced to the decisions of
persons grouped in accordance with their functions.
• The complexities of the modern economy which result

from the elaborate division of labour, and the use of
money, make it difficult without some kind of statistical
framework of this kind to assess even in rough
quantitative terms the results of given political, business
or personal activity in the aggregate.
• National income accounts are no more than

measurements of production, consumption and
investment arranged in such a way as to emphasise the
distinction between the decisions of people concerned
with, on the one hand, the production of commodities, and
on the other the consumption of what has been produced.
• In a developed economy these are different groups of

persons, though, of course, many people are members of
both groups.
• It is fairly obvious that if you produce goods you have only

two alternatives open: to consume them or not to
consume them. For the following reasons, however, this
view is probably unjustified. First, it is possible to under-
estimate the importance of the form in which statements
are made.
• By emphasising, in statistical terms, the dual nature of

transactions attention is drawn to the possibility that, in
the aggregate, the plans of consumers of commodities
may be inconsistent with the plans of producers: this is of
importance in relation to the study of problems of
business fluctuations and economic policy generally.
• National income accounts record, then: (a) the value of

production in a given period, which in turn is the sum of
sales by producers of goods and services to consumers-
that is, of consumption-and the value of additions to
national wealth-that is, of investment, gross or net-this
sum being regarded as the measure of a 'flow of value' to
producers, that is, an increase in their command over
resources;
• (b) the value of command over resources 'flowing' to the

factors of production during the same period, that is, of
income; (c) certain other 'transfers' of command over
resources representing net accretions to given groups of
transactors though not passing in exchange for currently
produced goods and services-for example, taxes, interest
on government debt, and social security benefits.
• Nevertheless, it is often convenient to think of national

income accounts as if they reflected money flows. When,
for example, income is transferred by, say, a business
man, in the form of a debt owing to the income-receiver,
we can pretend that money has been paid over, but that it
has been immediately re-lent to the business man;
• similarly if the business man has a profit which he has not

withdrawn from his business, we can write into the
accounts an imaginary money withdrawal and assume
that the money has been immediately re-lent to the
business. Payments in kind to employees may similarly be
regarded as money payments which the recipients must
immediately spend on the purchase from the business of
the goods or services in question.
• Our first step in drafting the accounts is to classify

'transactors' into two groups, called 'sectors', which may
be labelled 'firms' and 'households', corresponding to the
activities of 'production' and 'consumption'. Evidently, all
persons concerned with production must also be
consumers, though the reverse is not true. Our system
thus does not involve an exclusive classification of
persons, but of activities.
• 'Firms' are all organisations using the services of factors

of production for the purpose of producing goods and
services. Thus the activities of a private person operating
on his own account, for example a doctor or lawyer,
would, so far as his business was concerned, be
classified under 'firms'.
• Similarly, a private person owning a house is, in that

capacity, treated as a firm, hiring out his house to others
or, if he is an owner-occupier, to himself in the capacity of
consumer; in the latter case a notional rent is 'imputed'.
• 'Households' are all persons or groups of persons-wage-

earners, salary earners, property owners, business men-
receiving payment for services rendered by them to firms.
(Business men paying themselves the profits of their firms
are classified with 'households' in their capacity of income
recipients.)
• The term 'accounts' in its strict sense implies in fact one

particular way-that familiar to accountants, which will be
discussed shortly-but we use it here in the wider sense it
has acquired in national income studies, namely of an
organised arrangement of figures relating to the economic
activity of a given region.
• One arrangement, in which the transactions of an

economy can be neatly represented, is called a matrix: a
rectangular arrangement of numbers or symbols.
Receipts by: Payments by: Firms Households Total
Firms - 200 200
Households 200 - 200
Total 200 200 400

• This matrix states that in a self-contained economy in

which all commodities produced were at once consumed,
total payments by 'households' on the purchase of
commodities (called expenditure) would equal total
receipts by firms in respect of the sale of commodities and
that total payments by firms to households in respect of
the purchase of services of factors of production, which
include profits, would equal total receipts by households in
respect of the sale of these services (called income).
• It also indicates that total expenditure would equal total

income: this arises from the fact that the total of payments
of income by firms is so defined as to be equal to total
value of the product of firms-it must be noted that income
includes profits-and since the whole product is consumed,
total receipts of firms from sales must be equal to total
value of product. But total receipts from sales are the
same as total expenditure.
• In fact, each of these is so defined in national income

studies that we really have not three different entities of
the same size but three different names for the same
numerical magnitude
• The first step in the development of more complex

examples is taken when we allow for the fact that part of
the output of firms, in the creation of which incomes are
paid to owners of factors of production, will normally not
be sold as consumption goods, but will be acquired by
other firms or retained by the same firms.
• This will include both capital equipment and stocks of raw

materials, work in progress and finished goods held by
firms, though in calculating this figure we must allow for
decreases in stocks held at the beginning of the year.
• The value of this part of output is net investment, if

depreciation is deducted, and gross investment if it is not;
accordingly national product or income will be expressed
in gross terms.
• Now, by definition: (a) payments of income by firms are

equal to receipts of income by households; (b) payments
of income by firms are equal to the value of output
(product) of firms; (c) receipts of firms from the sale of
consumption goods to households plus the value of
investment of firms equal the value of output of firms.
• It follows that the amount of receipts of income by

households that is not spent on consumption goods-which
is called saving-equals the value of investment by firms.
• This is the famous (to economists) 'ex-post' equality of

savings and investment: 'ex-post' because it relates to a
picture of transactions which have already taken place.
• The introduction of investment and saving into the

accounts could be done by showing, in the firms sector,
payments of income to factors in excess of receipts of
expenditure on consumption from households, and
similarly, in the households sector, receipts in excess of
expenditure on consumption goods and services.
• It is, however, convenient for some purposes to introduce

a new row and a new column, to which we give the name
'capital'.
• We now show the amount of the saving of households as
a 'payment' from households to capital, with an equal
'payment' by capital to firms for investment.
• The capital account thus symbolises the process of

financing investment.
• If we assume that, of our original total income of 200, 40

is saved, or, in other words, of our original gross product
of 200, 40 is gross investment.
• As already noted, firms' receipts (shown in row a) consist
of (a) receipts from the sale of goods and services to
households and (b) receipts for the finance of such
additions to wealth as plant and machinery, or net
increases in stocks of raw materials, finished goods or
work-in-progress.
Receipts by: Payments by: Firms Households Capital Total
Firms - 160 40 2001

Households 200 - - 2005
Capital 40 - 403
Total 2002 2006 404 440
1
Gross national expenditure or product
2
Gross national income or product
3
Saving
4
Gross investment
5
Personal income
6
Personal expenditure plus saving
• Of course, individual firms may buy and sell from one

another, but all these transactions (which in aggregate
cancel out) are left out of account.
• If they were to be represented they would appear as a
number in the space where the firms column intersects
the firms row.
• For the time being all such transactions are ignored: in
accounting terminology, the accounts for all firms are
presented in 'consolidated' form.
• Similarly the income received by households may, in
aggregate, be devoted to two purposes: it may be spent
on purchases of goods and services from firms for
consumption, or it may be saved.
• Individual households may transfer purchasing power

from one another by gift, but, as with firms, these
transactions are omitted here: households' accounts are
'consolidated'.
• The total of spending on (a) consumption and (b)
investment- 200 in this example, given by the total of row
a-is still called gross expenditure and remains by
definition equal to gross income
• Thus, the investment figure of 40 in our example
represents the addition to wealth which has resulted from
the excess of the money value of production over the
amount spent on consumption.
• This excess represents the value of additions to fixed

equipment plus additions to or minus deductions from
stocks of raw materials, work-in-progress and finished
goods in the hands of producers. The calculation of
investment is thus a process of valuation.
• The profits of firms are defined as the difference between
(a) the amounts receivable from sale of consumption
goods, plus the value of investment, less (b) the amounts
paid out as incomes to all factors of production except
those entitled to the residuary share, whom we may call
'entrepreneurs'. This difference is the income of
'entrepreneurs'.
• In practice, of course, it is not usual for those in control of
a business to distribute the whole of its profit in money-in
many cases, indeed, it would only be possible to do so by
borrowing, since the whole or part of the profit may be
represented by rises in non-money assets.
• What we do is to transfer conceptually the whole of profits

to the household sector, remembering that, to the extent
that profits are in fact left in the business, they will be
automatically saved and therefore conceptually
transferred back to the firms sector as savings.
• The presentation of national income data in account form
parallels in some respects the double entry accounting
methods of business. It is in this form that it has become
customary for governments to publish the statistics of the
main economic aggregates of their national economies.
Firms
(Production)
Receipts Payment
1.Sales of consumption goods 160 3. Purchase of factor services from 200

and services to households households
2.Gross Investment 40
200 200
Households
(Consumption)
Receipts Payment
3.Sales of factor services to 200 4.Purchase of consumption 200

firms goods and services from firms
200 200
• In these accounts, figures on the left-hand side represent
'receipts', i.e. additions to the command over resources
enjoyed by the group whose activities are shown in the
account. Figures on the right-hand side represent
'payments', i.e. reductions in the command over
resources.
• This arrangement is arbitrary, and is sometimes reversed.
The single figure 200 in the matrix which represents
payments by firms to households is represented by two
figures in the account form, one in the account of firms
(the payments side) and one in the account of households
(the receipts side).
• It is exactly the same with the transactions in the reverse
direction. Since each item is always represented twice, on
opposite sides, the total of all entries on the left-hand side
must always equal the total on the right-hand side
• This provides an arithmetical check. Furthermore, if the
item on one side is, in practice, derived from a different
set of original statistical records from the equivalent item
on the opposite side, an explicit check on statistical
accuracy is provided by the fact that both must total to the
same amount.
• This check can, of course, be applied where matrix form is

used; nevertheless the double entry method provides a
subtle reminder, which is absent in other systems, of the
possibility of inaccuracy.
• The arrangement of national income data in matrices or in
accounts can be expressed in symbolic form. Thus the
content of the households row and column in the second
matrix, and of the households account in the second set
of accounts, can be described by writing
• Y=C+S
• Where
• Y is total income (receipts from sales of factor services)=
200
• C is expenditure on consumption (households' purchases
of consumption goods and services)= 160
• S is saving (income of households not consumed) = 40
• Similarly the content of the firms row and column and the
firms account can be summed up by the statement
• Y=C+I
• where
• Y is total income (payments by firms for factor services)=
200
• C is expenditure on consumption (receipts by firms from
sale of consumption goods and services)=160
• I is expenditure on investment (receipts by firms for the
finance of additions to wealth which can also be
interpreted as the value of the product of firms not sold for
consumption)= 40.
• It follows that S=l.
• The identity of S and I is the symbolic statement of the
'ex-post' equality of saving and investment
• It is important to remember, however, that we are dealing
with statistics of realised income and realised expenditure.
Intended or expected income and expenditure for a given
period, in the sense of the sum of individual expectations
at the beginning of the period, may very well be unequal,
as explained below in connection with savings and
investment.
Input-output accounts
• For certain purposes we may be interested in the

classification of output by industrial classes, that is, we
may wish to examine separately the value of the final
output of manufactures, agriculture, transport services
and so on.
• Moreover, we may be interested in what is going on within
the firms sector of the economy. Industries sell to one
another as well as to final consumers.
• inter-firm transfers do not add to national resources

means merely that once a firm has processed the
resources passed to it, which forms its inputs-and
'processing' covers transporting over space and time as
well as changes in form-the mere handing over of legal
ownership and control to another firm is not considered to
add to value.
• Another reason for the cancellation of inter-form transfers

is that thereby a simpler picture of the economy can be
presented than would otherwise be possible. On the other
hand the picture then becomes, necessarily, somewhat
less adequate as a description of the activity of the whole
economy
NATIONAL INCOME ACCOUNTS:
TRANSACTIONS WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD
• 1. Imports exports
• Let us assume that firms have transactions with the
outside world and that they buy imports of raw materials
from non-residents and sell finished goods abroad.
• From the point of view of their effect on the economy

these transactions are very similar to the investment
transactions of firms
1. Imports exports
• In whatever way the overseas customer pays, the result

must (unless the export is a free gift) be an improvement
in the overseas wealth of the home country. Either the
non-resident must transfer gold or overseas currency or
some other asset to the home country; or he must
surrender a bank balance or some other asset he already
has there,
1. Imports exports
• thus reducing the claims of non-residents as a whole on

the home country; or he must borrow in the home country
(either at short or longer term) thus increasing the claims
of the latter on the rest of the world.
• Whether or not the overseas investment represented by

an export is a net increase in the wealth of the exporting
country in a given period depends upon whether it arises
from newly created wealth or is a sale from existing
stocks. In the latter case there will be simultaneous
domestic disinvestment
1. Imports exports
• Indeed, even when newly created goods are exported this

can, if one chooses, be regarded as a process of
domestic investment followed shortly afterwards by home
disinvestment and simultaneous overseas investment.
• However, although for some purposes the intermediate

stages may be of interest, when we are concerned with
the net effect of transactions in a given period these can
be ignored.
1. Imports exports
• The first part of the transaction will be recorded like this:

Firms
Households Purchases of factor services from households 20
Sales of factor services to firms 20
1. Imports exports
• We have not, however, yet recorded the 'flow of value'

represented by the receipt by firms of money or some
other claim from the overseas customer. If we insert this
we have:
Firms
Sales of goods and services to non-residents 20
Purchases of factor services from households 20

1. Imports exports
• Finally,symmetry is preserved in the accounts by

showing, as before, a 'payment' from households equal to
the income they have saved, so that we have:
Households
Sales of factor services to firms 20 Households' saving 20
1. Imports exports
• The value of 'sales of goods and services to non-

residents', shown in firms account, is also the value of
'investment abroad': the net increase in overseas assets.
When there are also purchases from abroad, the
difference between these and sales abroad is net
investment, or dis-investment, abroad.
• The parallel with domestic investment is very close, as
can be seen by imagining that instead of selling the goods
in exchange for assets from overseas (gold or dollar
balances, for example) firms had retained them as stocks.
1. Imports exports
• It will be remembered that in the case of domestic

investment an additional account, called capital, was
inserted to summarise the savings-investment figures.
This procedure is extended to the case of investment
abroad.
1. Imports exports
• Here, however, an additional sub-classification is

introduced, called the 'rest of the world', in which are
summarized the export and import transactions resulting
in the net overseas investment or disinvestment which
then appears as a single item in the capital account.
Continuing with our simple example, still with only one
type of transaction, we have, in addition to the accounts
shown above:
Rest of the world
• Net borrowing from the • Purchases of exports

home country by rest from firms by non-
of the world, or net residents 20
transfer of assets to
the home country,
equals net investment
abroad
20
1. Imports exports
•1
Rest of the world
Purchases of
Net borrowing from the home
exports from
country by rest of the world,
firms by non-
or net transfer of assets to
residents
the home country, equals net
investment abroad 20 20
1. Imports exports
•2
Capital
Net investment abroad 20

Households' saving 20
1. Imports exports
• Both these accounts repeat information that is available in

the sector accounts, and the rest of the world account
repeats information that is available in the capital account.
• It might seem, therefore, that they are redundant. We

have now demonstrated the main principles that govern
the recording of overseas transactions in the national
income accounts.
1. Imports exports
• Suppose that the only transactions in the economy were

exports of goods which formed part of stocks at the
beginning of our accounting period. How would these
enter into the accounts? There is now no transaction with
households. Only one sector is concerned: firms. We can
record a receipt by firms from non-residents in payment
for the export. At the same time we must record the
amount of the disinvestment in stock, so that we have:
Firms
Sales of goods to
20 Disinvestment in stocks 20
non-residents
3. The whole system of accounts with overseas transactions
• Let us assume that exports are 20 and imports 24, so that

overseas disinvestment is 4, consumption 164, gross
domestic investment 40 as before. We will also take this
opportunity of bringing the accounts a little closer to
current practice by assuming that while 'payments' for
factor services remain at 200, 20 of this amount is the
undistributed profit of corporate business. This is shown
as saving in firms account, leaving 180 'paid' to
households
3. The whole system of accounts with overseas transactions
• We shall find that the net effect of these changes is to

bring households' saving down to 16, and total saving
(that is, including saving of 20 by corporate business in
the firms sector) to 36. We then have:
Firms
Receipts Payments
Sales of consumption goods and 164 Purchase of factor services from households 180
services to households
Gross Domestic Investment 40 Purchase of imports from non-residents 24
Sales of exports to non-resident 20 Firms’ saving 20
224 224
4. Further considerations
• Exports and imports does not include not only

transactions in goods, but such 'invisible' transactions as
the sale or purchase of insurance cover, banking services,
shipping facilities, etc., to or from residents in the rest of
the world.
• 'Exports' also includes receipts from such transactions as

the sale of goods and services to visitors from overseas,
which give rise to claims in favour of the home country as
surely as the direct dispatch of goods to territories abroad,
while in the same way, expenditure by residents when
they go abroad is equivalent to imports.
• Similarly we regard rents, interest and dividends currently

receivable from abroad as part of the national income of
the home country and group such receipts with exports,
while payments in the reverse direction are classed with
imports.
• It is thus convenient to include in our firms sector the
activities of people in their capacity of holders of overseas
property, the amount of the income being recorded as a
receipt. A corresponding payment of 'factor income' to
households is shown. Similar payments in the reverse
direction are regarded as negative factor income and
'imports' of firms
GOVERNMENT ACTIVITY
• For social accounting purposes we can state as a first

approximation that the government is a collective 'person'
that purchases goods and services from firms in order to
provide services which normally it does not sell and
which, in its own judgment (it must be presumed), it can
provide more conveniently or efficiently than private
enterprise. These purchases may be financed by the
compulsory withdrawal of purchasing power from private
consumers that is by taxation, or by government
borrowing.
GOVERNMENT ACTIVITY
• First of all, it must be noted that the term 'government'
does not only include the central authority, but also local
authorities and such agencies of the central authority as
the social security funds administration. (These are
sometimes called, collectively, the public authorities.)
GOVERNMENT ACTIVITY
• The financial relation between most government
authorities is close, and the division of services between
them is often a matter of convention.
• Thus the social security funds, although recorded in

separate financial accounts, may be partially financed by
government grants, and the contributions paid by
employers and employees may, because they are
compulsory, be regarded as taxes.
GOVERNMENT ACTIVITY
• The inclusion of social security agencies suggests a
modification in our definition. We have defined the
government as a collective 'person' that purchases goods
and services from firms. However, social security
payments generally take the form of money benefits and
not the form of the provision of real services.
GOVERNMENT ACTIVITY
• In other words, the government may redistribute claims on
the national product through its power to tax, but not
necessarily in the form of goods and services in kind. The
same is true in the case of payments of interest on the
national debt-there is a redistribution of claims from
taxpayers to fund holders. The general term for this form
of expenditure is transfer payments.
GOVERNMENT ACTIVITY
• These, unlike payments for services of factors of
production, are not regarded as made in respect of newly
created services; they represent redistribution of income.
• It should be noted, however, that net government receipts

or payments to non-residents do not represent
redistribution of domestic income but are regarded as
additions to or deductions from aggregate national
income.
2. The classification of Government purchases
• The government sector may thus be regarded as

delimiting a special section of the consumption activities
of the economy in which purchases of goods and services
are made on behalf of the community as a whole, taxes
are received and certain transfer payments are made.
The classification of Government purchases
• We might thus regard the government as a special kind of
'household' whose activities are sufficiently different from
those of other households to require separate
classification. Productive activities of government, on the
other hand, are classified in our system of accounts, like
those of private persons, with firms.
The classification of Government purchases
• The traditional functions of government are the
preservation of law and order and the defence of the
country from external attack. These functions presuppose
the purchase by the government of the services of
individuals as policemen, soldiers and administrators and
the purchase of goods such as weapons of all kinds,
aircraft, and so on.
3. The government account
• On the receipts side we have taxes levied by central and
local government, corresponding payments appearing in
the accounts of firms and households. The taxes are
divided into two classes in accordance with the customary
distinction that is made between 'direct' and 'indirect'
taxation.
• Direct taxes, sometimes called 'taxes on income', include
income taxes and profits taxes; indirect taxes, sometimes
called 'taxes on expenditure', include sales and purchase
taxes and local rates.
• On the right-hand, or payments, side of the government
account we have purchases of current goods and services
from firms, just as we have in the case of households,
though 'consumption' now extends to expenditure on
weapons of war and the like, and on civil activities of
government.
• Then we have such transfer payments as interest on the
national debt and social security payments to households,
which include national insurance benefits, family
allowances, scholarships, and so on: we shall include one
item, called 'transfers to households', in our set of
accounts to represent all these.
Firms
Receipts Payments
Sales of consumption goods and 170 Purchase of factor service from households 180
services to households
Sales of current goods and 30 Direct taxes 8
services to government
Gross domestic Investment 20 Indirect taxes 26
Sales of exports to non-residents 20 Firms saving 12
Less purchases of imports from non- -14
residents
226 226
NATIONAL INCOME ACCOUNTS: PROBLEMS OF
CLASSIFICATION AND DEFINITION
• 1. Introduction
• In this chapter we shall consider some of the problems of
definition which arise when we try to fit into the conceptual
framework of a set of national income accounts the
network of interrelated transactions and value changes
that occur in an actual economy.
Introduction
• The main difficulties relate to: (a) the way in which we
classify the economy by accounts; (b) questions about
which activities the accounts shall cover and which they
shall exclude, and the distinction between receipts and
payments of 'income', and 'transfer payments'; (c) the
principles on which the measurements are to be made.
Closely connected with questions of definition are the
statistical problems which arise in the process of
assembling the data.
2. Classification into sectors and accounts-the appropriation account
• The first problem, which has already been suggested by

the earlier discussion, arises when we are considering the
main heads under which we wish to classify activities. The
general form of the national income accounts is derived
from theoretical descriptions of the economy.
• These theoretical models describe relationships between

the main functional activities in the economy: production,
consumption, investment, saving. In simple, hypothetical,
examples it is possible to identify this kind of classification
by function with classification by certain types of social
organisation.
2. Classification into sectors and accounts-the
appropriation account
• 'Firms' carry on production, and buy factor services.
'Households' receive income from firms from the sale of
factor services and use part of that income for
consumption, saving the rest.
• Now, if one is considering economic behaviour (and this is
the idea underlying all social accounting) it may be
misleading to ignore the various forms in which the
transactors of the economy are organised. Company
directors will behave differently from the owners of private
businesses, and the decisions of both are of a different
nature from those of the administrators of government
trading bodies; and so on.
• This suggests that there may be advantages in dividing
the firms, or production, account into sub-accounts,
corresponding to different types of business organization
since it may be convenient to sub-divide the government
account into accounts for central and local government.
• This segregation of figures is not, however, extended to

other types of organization and, moreover, is only applied
to what is called the appropriation account.
• The business activities of any productive organisation, or
'firm' in our terminology, can be divided into (a) the
'productive' activities proper and (b) the receipt and
payment of 'transfers', so-called to distinguish them from
payments arising out of the productive activities. Our firms
account can be made to reflect this division by splitting it
into two parts called the 'production' or 'operating' account
and the 'appropriation' account.
• As a corollary, one of the 'payments' to factors of
production in any particular operating account will be the
profit for the period; and there will be a corresponding
'receipt' in the appropriation account, which will then show
how much of the profit, together with any 'transfers'
received, is distributed in the form of direct taxation,
interest, and dividends, and how much is saved.
• The inadequacy of the data available to the compilers of
the accounts makes it impossible for them to maintain
perfect consistency in their scheme. For instance,
because the income tax statistics do not distinguish
between distributed and undistributed income of non-
corporate business the statisticians have to record direct
taxes on non-corporate business, and savings of non-
corporate business, in the households or personal sector,
though this is inconvenient, and may mislead the reader
of the accounts who does not familiarize himself with the
manner of their construction.
3. The transactions recorded
• National income accounts do not purport to provide a

'complete' picture of the economy, even in the limited
sense in which any set of measurements can provide a
'complete' picture. It is not very difficult to indicate in broad
terms the classes of economic events that are
respectively embraced by, and excluded from, the
accounts.
• The latter record: (a) the 'flow' of value arising from the
production of new goods and services during the period of
the accounts, classified under different heads of
expenditure according to the disposal of the product (but
not necessarily of the actual 'things' produced, for some of
the goods manufactured during a period will go into stock,
and goods brought forward from the previous period will
be consumed in the current period);
• (b) the incomes accruing to the factors of production in
respect of that product; (c) 'current' transfers of wealth,
between sectors, and to and from abroad, in the form of
gifts, grants, taxes, interest payments (to the extent that
these are not regarded as part of factor incomes); and (d),
to a limited extent, 'capital' transfers.
• On the other hand the accounts exclude domestic
transactions in second-hand goods-that is, in goods that
have left the ownership of their 'producers'-except to the
extent that such goods are sold back to the production
sector by consumers.
• When, however, we begin to think about the nature of the
goods and services whose value makes up our product,
we find it difficult to draw any satisfactory formal
distinction between services which are to be regarded as
part of the national product and those that are not.
• If we are to include, as we do, the value of paid services
of domestic servants and hotel workers why should we
exclude, as we also do, the value of unpaid services of
wives and other members of households in the home? If
we include as part of the product the value of work done
by professional house painters is it not reasonable to
include the value of work put in by people who do their
own house decoration, especially when we remember that
in order to work in the home some people may sacrifice
income that they could have earned in other occupations
and which would have gone into the statistics?
• In general the services that are excluded do not enter into
the market and could, therefore, only be valued on an
arbitrary basis. (We must remember that the converse is
not true: rents are imputed, for example, to houses even
when owned by their occupiers, and in the tax
assessment of farm incomes an addition is made for the
value of produce consumed by the household.
• A good deal of capital formation, too, is 'internal' to the

firm.) Nevertheless, mention must be made of one class
of transactions that do occur in the market and yet in
respect of which no income is deemed to arise.
• Difficulties may also arise in deciding whether some
expenditure should be regarded as final outlays or as
purchases of inputs. For example, it is usual to treat
personal expenditure on the journey to work as part of
consumption expenditure paid out of the employee's
income. But it would not be entirely unreasonable to
regard at least part of this outlay as the purchase of an
input by the employee, his income being correspondingly
less.
• After all, if the cost of the lift which takes the employee to
the office floor on which he is to work is regarded as an
input (of his employer in this case) why not the cost of the
rest of his journey to work?
• On the other hand it is not difficult to find contrary
arguments: the distance to work is partly a function of the
employee's choice of residence, and it is not
unreasonable to regard at least the extra cost of travel
incurred because he prefers a better home environment
than that of the living accommodation nearest to his firm,
as consumption. As always, however, the border line is
arbitrary. Here, too, the income tax rules provide a rule of
thumb solution: the journey is 'consumption'
4. The principles of measurement
• The various national income aggregates are conceived in

terms of exchanges at market values and even the
adjustment to factor cost is based on the deduction of
certain payments fixed in money terms -indirect taxes net
of subsidies-from an aggregate calculated in terms of
market prices
• . In so far as the measurements in the accounts reflect
actual purchases and sales of goods and services for
money, or payments fixed in terms of money, no valuation
problem arises.
• Certain difficulties are found, however, when we come to
measurements that do not reflect sales and purchases to
be settled in money.
•
• The main problems arise out of such questions as the
valuation of farm produce consumed by the farm
household, which must be added both to income and to
consumption; the imputation of rental values to owner-
occupied property; and, in particular, the valuation of
investment or capital formation in the forms both of fixed
capital formation and stock changes, including the
problem of depreciation.
5. The collection of data
• So far we have taken the figures provided for granted.
How are they collected? How reliable are they? Complete
answers to these questions would require a separate
volume.
• we can look at the national income in three ways, as the
sum of the net output of individual industries (national
product), as the sum of factor incomes (national income)
and as the sum of the purchases of final output (national
expenditure).
• Ideally, therefore, what we require is independent
calculations of each aggregate based on different
sources.
• Thus, in theory we might obtain national product by listing
the value of goods and services produced, deducting from
the total the value of those which are inputs in the
productive process; national expenditure by examining
records of sales of final goods and services and of capital
formation inside firms; and national income by listing
factor incomes derived from productive activities.
• In practice, independent estimates can only be made to a
limited degree, partly because some components of each
aggregate are only available from one source (for
example changes in stock inventories of firms) and partly
because of the practical difficulties in finding adequate
and reliable statistics of all the items in each component.
• There are several obvious factors which will govern the
reliability of any set of facts such as those required for our
estimates. Ideally what we require is that all economic
units should keep accurate accounts, suitably classified
according to official definitions, and should be prepared to
disclose the information.
• In fact, in the first place, records may not be adequate,
and, in the second place, even if there is a desire to co-
operate with authorities to the fullest extent, errors of
computation may arise, while errors in classification are
easy to make.
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (GDP)
• is the total market value of all final goods and services

produced in a given year within the boundaries of a
country.
Gross National Product
• Total/Aggregate market value of all final goods and
services produced of citizens and firms of an
economy/country in a one-year period.
• That is this measure includes only citizens and domestic
firms including the value of their production generated
outside of the economy/country.
INDEXES
•
• =LASPEYRES PRICE INDEX
• =current price
• =quantity used in the base year
• =price in the base period
CONT’D
• =paasche price index

• =current price
• =price of the base period
• =quantity used in the current period
• It reflects the current buying habits

• It requires quantity data for each year
WEAKNESSES OF USING GDP
• People in different countries typically consume different
baskets of goods. For example, the per capita
consumption of meat in Argentina is about 70 times larger
than in India, where cow meat is not usually part of the
diet. However, price indices that allow for international
comparisons should be pricing the same basket of goods
CONT’D
• Even if the bundle is the same, its value should be
computed using relative prices across countries
(multilateral indexes). In general, durable goods in terms
of consumption goods are more expensive in developing
countries than they are in the developed world, and, vice
versa, services are relatively cheaper in developing
countries. The PWT uses a valuation of goods that tends
to overstate the value of consumption in poor countries
CONT’D
• It is difficult to value activities related to the service sector
(e.g., housing rental, government services, health care):
What is the value added to the economy of a teacher?
CONT’D
• When aggregating data, it is common practice to use fixed
shares of consumption, investment and public expenditure
(the one corresponding to some arbitrary base year). This
is problematic because changing base years (and,
therefore, the contribution of each item in total output)
may induce movements in estimates that do not stem
from any fundamental change in value of the components
THE CIRCULAR FLOW OF INCOME
• The circular flow of income is a simple model of the
economy showing flows of goods and services and factors
of production between firms and households.
CONT’D
• In the absence of government and international trade this
simple model shows that households provide the factors
of production for firms who produce goods and services.
• In return the factors of production receive factor
payments, such as wages, which in turn are spent on the
output of firms
THE CIRCULAR FLOW OF INCOME DIAGRAM
CONT’D
• the households do not spend all their current income.
Some is saved. This represents a leakage from the
circular flow. In addition to the consumer spending, firms
also carry out investment spending. This is an injection to
the circular flow of income, as it does not originate from
consumers' current income.
CONT’D
• In the real world the government and international trade
sectors must also be included. Economic systems are in
reality three sector open economies.
CONT’D
• Consequently there will be additional leakages and
injections. Government spending will be injected into the
circular flow and taxation will leak from it. Export flows will
be injected and imports flows leaked.
THE CIRCULAR FLOW OF INCOME DIAGRAM
CONT’D
• This model of the economy demonstrates that economic
activity is a flow. In actual fact it can be considered two
flows, one of goods and services and a flow of money.
CONT’D
• The size of these flows is an indicator of the amount of
economic activity. The circular nature of the flows means
that there will be a number of different ways of measuring
the size of the flow
CIRCULAR FLOW AND NIA
• According to Manyika, Dobbs and Woetzel(2014) the
Global flows are growing and contribute to GDP growth.
Flows of goods, services, and finance in 2012 reached
$26 trillion, or 36 percent of global GDP—1.5 times as
large relative to GDP as they were in 1990.
CONT’D
• If the spread of digital technologies and rising prosperity in
emerging economies continues, global flows could nearly
triple by 2025 and boost economic growth.
GLOBAL FLOW
• The United States ranks 3rd on the connectedness index
but, among the large economies, has one of the lowest
flow intensities (36%) relative to the size of its economy;
Germany overtook the United States as the most
connected country, gaining in all flows;
CONT’
• The United Kingdom is highly connected across all flows
but lags behind in goods flows—its flow intensity has
dropped sharply;
• China is ranked very high on goods and financial flows but
overall is only 25th due to very low people flow;
CONT’D
• Russia is the most connected emerging market, at 9th
overall. It is especially high on people flows; South Africa
ranks in the middle of the pack on the world stage but is in
the top 3 sub-Saharan African countries for all 5 flows.
CONT’D
• In most developing countries the income approach is not
used as the attribution of mixed income from own-account
work and imputed values of own produced consumption
make the estimates rather arbitrary, while for the other
data items information is often also incomplete.
• The CPI itself may, however, have serious shortcomings.
For instance, in Francophone African countries, the CPI is
limited to the capital cities. In many other countries only
larger cities are included.
CONT’D
• The circular flow model shows the interrelationship
between the four sectors of the economy: households,
firms, government, and the international sector. Since
GDP is a measure of production for the entire economy, it
can be measured by adding together the expenditures for
production of each of these four components, or sectors.
Using this method to compute GDP is called the
expenditures approach.
EXPENDITURE APPROACH
• GDP = C + I + G + (X – M)
• GDP can be calculated as the sum of four categories:

consumption (C), investment (I), government
expenditures (G), and net exports (exports – imports, or X
– M).
• Households can spend their income on domestic goods,

or they can save it, pay taxes, or buy foreign goods
CONSUMPTION
• Households buy the goods produced by the businesses;
this is the biggest category of GDP especially in the
developed nations, for US it is about 70% of GDP.
INVESTMENT
• Households can save a portion of their income, which
goes into financial markets; businesses can borrow this
money and invest it in equipment, factories, or inventories;
this is gross investment.
GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES
• This category consists of government payments for goods
and services.
• Note that G does not include all government spending, but
only spending on purchases of goods and services.
• Total government spending also includes transfer

payments, or payments for such things as unemployment
compensation, welfare payments, and Social Security
benefits.
CONT’D
• These transfer payments are not included in GDP
because they do not represent current production in the
economy. They only represent the transfer of money from
one segment of the economy to another.
NET EXPORTS
• Goods exported to other nations (exports) are a part of
the country’s output, but the spending on foreign goods
imported to the country (imports) does not add to
domestic production. Net exports are equal to exports
minus imports.
• Exports are added into GDP because they represent

goods and services that are produced within the economy
but are not part of domestic expenditures. Imports are
subtracted because they represent spending on goods
and services that were not produced within the economy.
INCOME APPROACH
• GDP can also be calculated through three different

income approaches: aggregate, national, and personal.
AGGREGATE INCOME
• The most common income approach and is the total
income measured by adding all labour income (wages,
salaries, and benefits), capital income (interest, profits,
and rent), depreciation, indirect business taxes, and net
income of foreigners.
NATIONAL INCOME
• The total income earned by citizens and businesses within
a country during one year. It is the sum of labour income
and capital income and excludes indirect business taxes,
depreciation, and the net income of foreigners.
PERSONAL INCOME
• The total income paid directly to individuals. It includes
capital income, labour income, and transfer payments.
INCOME RECEIVED BY FACTORS OF
PRODUCTION
• Labour earns salaries or wages
• Capital earns interest
• Land earns rent
• Also, firms earn profits, which remain within the circular

flow.
CONT’D
• Sometimes, economists consider entrepreneurship to be
a separate factor of production (rather than a special
category of labour), and profit would be listed as the
income received by entrepreneurs. Profit as an income
category is in turn divided into two categories: proprietors'
income (sole proprietorships and partnerships) and
corporate profits (corporations).
CONT’D
• Total income received by the segments of the economy,
then, would be:
• Wages + Interest + Rent + Profits

NATIONAL INCOME
• This sum of income received by the segments of the
economy do not add up to GDP, however, and will not
match the GDP amount calculated using the expenditures
approach. Some adjustments need to be made in order
to get from this number to GDP. However, this number
does have a name: National Income, or NI. It follows that
the formula for national income is:
NI = Wages + Interest + Rent + Proprietors' Income +
Corporate Profits
CONT’D
• From national income, three more adjustments are
needed in order to get to GDP.
CONT’D
• The government receipts are not part of this equation.
That is because income tax receipts include money that is
part of the incomes of the other segments of the economy.
They are already being counted elsewhere. However,
some taxes are collected from consumers by businesses,
which have to turn this money over to the government.
These taxes include state and local sales taxes, and
excise taxes. Together, they are called indirect business
taxes. In order to balance income and expenditures, this
amount needs to be added to NI. This yields a number
• that is called net national product, or NNP.
NET NATIONAL PRODUCT
• NNP = NI + Indirect Business Taxes
CONT’D
• Not this entire amount is received as income. Some of it
is used to replace worn-out equipment, plus the
replacement of damaged or accidentally destroyed
equipment. This replacement value is called capital
consumption allowance. The routine replacement of worn-
out equipment is called depreciation, and is computed and
allocated over the lifetime of the equipment using an
accounting procedure at each individual firm.
GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT
• Since depreciation makes up the vast majority of the
capital consumption allowance, often this allowance is
simply referred to as depreciation. In order to balance
income and expenditures, this amount needs to be added
to income. Adding the capital consumption allowance (or
depreciation) to NNP will yield a number that is called
Gross National Product, or GNP.
• GNP = NNP + Capital Consumption Allowance (or
Depreciation)
CONT’D
• Gross refers to gross investment and net refers to net
investment, which is total investment net of the allowance
for depreciation.
• Gross investment minus depreciation equals net

investment
CONT’D
• GNP includes income received by citizens, regardless of
whether the income was earned on production within the
country or not. It excludes income earned within the
country's borders by non-citizens. GDP is a measure of
production that occurs within a nation's borders,
regardless of the nationality of whomever it is that
produces it.
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
• An adjustment needs to be made to GNP to account for
this difference. This adjustment is called net factor
income from abroad, or net foreign factor income. It is
found by taking income received by citizens outside the
nation's borders, and subtracting income received by
foreigners within the nation's borders. Subtracting net
factor income from abroad will yield GDP.
• GDP = GNP - Net Factor Income from Abroad
CONT’D
GDP amount, found using the income approach, should be
equal to GDP using the expenditures approach. Since
compilation of figures in the real world is imperfect, there
may be a difference for routine error and rounding.
LEWIS'S DUAL SECTOR MODEL OF
DEVELOPMENT
• Lewis proposed his dual sector development model in
1954. It was based on the assumption that many LDCs
had dual economies with both a traditional agricultural
sector and a modern industrial sector.
• The traditional agricultural sector was assumed to be of a
subsistence nature characterized by low productivity, low
incomes, low savings and considerable
underemployment. The industrial sector was assumed to
be technologically advanced with high levels of
investment operating in an urban environment.
CONT’D
• Lewis suggested that the modern industrial sector would
attract workers from the rural areas. Industrial firms,
whether private or publicly owned could offer wages that
would guarantee a higher quality of life than remaining in
the rural areas could provide. Furthermore, as the level of
labour productivity was so low in traditional agricultural
areas people leaving the rural areas would have virtually
no impact on output.
CONT’D
• Indeed, the amount of food available to the remaining
villagers would increase as the same amount of food
could be shared amongst fewer people. This might
generate a surplus which could them be sold generating
income.
CONT’D
• Those people that moved away from the villages to the
towns would earn increased incomes and this crucially
according to Lewis generates more savings. The lack of
development was due to a lack of savings and
investment.
• The key to development was to increase savings and
investment. Lewis saw the existence of the modern
industrial sector as essential if this was to happen. Urban
migration from the poor rural areas to the relatively richer
industrial urban areas gave workers the opportunities to
earn higher incomes and crucially save more providing
funds for entrepreneurs to investment.
CONT’D
• A growing industrial sector requiring labour provided the
incomes that could be spent and saved. This would in
itself generate demand and also provide funds for
investment. Income generated by the industrial sector was
trickling down throughout the economy.
PROBLEMS OF THE LEWIS MODEL
• The idea that the productivity of labour in rural areas is
almost zero may be true for certain times of the year
however during planting and harvesting the need for
labour is critical to the needs of the village.
• The assumption of a constant demand for labour from the

industrial sector is questionable. Increasing technology
may be labour saving reducing the need for labour. In
addition if the industry concerned declines again the
demand for labour will fall.
CONT’D
• The idea of trickle down has been criticised. Will higher
incomes earned in the industrial sector be saved? If the
entrepreneurs and labour spend their new found gains
rather than save it, funds for investment and growth will
not be made available.
• The rural urban migration has for many LDCs been far
larger that the industrial sector can provide jobs for. Urban
poverty has replaced rural poverty.
SOME LIMITATIONS OF NIA
• Economic welfare is not measured by the GDP, ie GDP
doesn’t measure happiness.
• Welfare is a complicated idea, very difficult to measure.

Measurement errors
• GDP figures do not measure all market economic activity.
• GDP figures do not measure:

• Black market
• Illegal drug sales
• Work performed and paid by cash
• Unreported sales
• Prostitution, loan sharking, extortion, and other illegal
activities.
CONT’D
• A second type of measurement error occurs in
adjusting GDP for inflation.
• If the price and the quality of a product go up together,
has the price really gone up?
• Is it possible to measure the value of quality increases?

MISINTERPRETATION OF SUBCATEGORIES
• The subcategories of GDP can be misinterpreted.
• For example, the line between investment and

consumption is often fuzzy.

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NATIONAL INCOME ACCOUNTING

• The course will examine the complete circular flow model

• Economic Measures: • Non-Economic

• One general description of the economic activity of a

• By 'production' we mean the organisation of human

• 'Production' in this sense does not necessarily imply the

• By 'consumption' we mean the enjoyment, usually

• Consumption may take the form of enjoyment of

• In the course of a given period, some of the economic

• gross investment' refers to the gross investment in fixed

• deduction is commonly called 'depreciation'.

• This can also be written:

• One of the main statistical problems arising from any

• However, the fact that, in developed economies at least,

• The idea of a general description of economic activity in

• Studies of the national product are concerned with

• The complexities of the modern economy which result

• National income accounts are no more than

• In a developed economy these are different groups of

• It is fairly obvious that if you produce goods you have only

• By emphasising, in statistical terms, the dual nature of

• National income accounts record, then: (a) the value of

• (b) the value of command over resources 'flowing' to the

• Nevertheless, it is often convenient to think of national

• similarly if the business man has a profit which he has not

• Our first step in drafting the accounts is to classify

• 'Firms' are all organisations using the services of factors

• Similarly, a private person owning a house is, in that

• 'Households' are all persons or groups of persons-wage-

• The term 'accounts' in its strict sense implies in fact one

• One arrangement, in which the transactions of an

Receipts by: Payments by: Firms Households Total

Firms - 200 200

Households 200 - 200

Total 200 200 400

• This matrix states that in a self-contained economy in

• It also indicates that total expenditure would equal total

• In fact, each of these is so defined in national income

• The first step in the development of more complex

• This will include both capital equipment and stocks of raw

• The value of this part of output is net investment, if

• Now, by definition: (a) payments of income by firms are

• It follows that the amount of receipts of income by

• This is the famous (to economists) 'ex-post' equality of

• The introduction of investment and saving into the

• It is, however, convenient for some purposes to introduce

• The capital account thus symbolises the process of

• If we assume that, of our original total income of 200, 40

Receipts by: Payments by: Firms Households Capital Total

Firms - 160 40 2001

• Of course, individual firms may buy and sell from one

• Individual households may transfer purchasing power

• This excess represents the value of additions to fixed

• What we do is to transfer conceptually the whole of profits

1.Sales of consumption goods 160 3. Purchase of factor services from 200

3.Sales of factor services to 200 4.Purchase of consumption 200

• This check can, of course, be applied where matrix form is

• For certain purposes we may be interested in the

• inter-firm transfers do not add to national resources