A History of National AccountingIn A History of National Accounting, Andre Vanoli focuses on the history of accounting in the second part of the 20th century. The book is about the relations between economic theories and the observation of the present and the past looked at from the viewpoint of economic measurement. Some parts of the book are especially devoted to the French experience in this field, but the point of view is deliberately universal. The publication is about; The birth of national accounting; The evolution of systems of accounts and accounting issues in the perspective of international harmonization; National accounts as a statistical synthesis; Concepts and their relations with economic theory; Uses and status of national accounting. |
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From Estimates of National Income to Construction | 4 |
Contents | 11 |
Outlook | 26 |
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accounting framework accounting system activities aggregates analysis Appendix approach assets balance sheets balancing item business accounting calculation capital formation century chapter compensation of employees compilation comptabilité nationale concept constant prices consumer consumption of fixed cont'd Box corresponding countries economic accounts enterprises environmental estimates Eurostat expenditure factor cost factors of production final consumption fixed capital flows France French national accounting GFCF global gross growth growth accounting Hicks households imputed Income and Wealth indices indirect taxes industries integrated interest intermediate consumption investment Kuznets macroeconomic market prices measurement method monetary national income net domestic product non-financial non-market services OECD output particular payments possible present purchasers reference satellite accounts statistical statisticians stocks Stone subsidies surplus system of national theoretical theory transactions transfers treatment United United Kingdom value added Vanoli welfare World Bank