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But, according to US Treasury data, China’s holdings of US government securities totaled $1.16 trillion at the end of 2010, accounting for roughly 60% of the overall increase in foreign official holdings of US government debt.
Students spend their entire four years at university studying a single subject, be it accounting or computer science.
Although the effect is to raise revenue, that is just an accounting convention.
This effort is important, because India’s economy and exports are dominated by services, which have grown steadily relative to overall output, now accounting for almost 60% of GDP.
There is also the information revolution with its ability to create software programs that restructure dramatically tasks from accounting to ticketing, from finance to shopping to leisure.
Their innovations focused on circumventing accounting and financial regulations designed to ensure transparency, efficiency, and stability, and to prevent the exploitation of the less informed.
Not surprisingly, stock options create strong incentives for short-sighted and excessively risky behavior, as well as for “creative accounting,” which executives throughout the economy perfected with off-balance-sheet shenanigans.
Accounting for this information gap, UN Security Council Resolution 1441 empowers the inspectors to talk to Iraqi scientists without government minders, outside of Iraq if necessary, and accompanied by their families.
For now, education is at the back of the queue in the immediate aftermath of crises, accounting for only 2% of humanitarian aid, the bulk of which is allocated to health, housing, and food.
In fact, although America’s trade significance has diminished, accounting for only 16% of Brazilian exports last year, Brazilian trade and growth typically go hand in hand with the US and Europe; historically they have never decoupled.
Are accounting gimmicks being used to overstate the true value of foreign capital contributions?
But if leaders end up pursuing an extreme form of short-termism – by, say, passing big tax cuts with no accompanying revenue increase, weakening public institutions, or imposing tariffs or engaging in other forms of protectionism, without accounting for retaliation by other countries – the gains will not last long.
China’s statistical agency is still mired in communist input-output accounting.
Global regulatory initiatives, particularly those aimed at standardizing accounting and other disclosure requirements, will be enforced vigorously.
They must adopt listing rules that emphasize timely disclosure for both domestic and international investors, implement international accounting standards, and prohibit insider trading in order to encourage listings by local and regional blue-chip issuers and attract international investors.
First, direct negotiations between employers and employees in small and medium-size firms (accounting for 55% of the workforce) would be facilitated by allowing such companies to negotiate with elected representatives not mandated by the trade unions.
These programs’ costs will rise sharply as the 78-million-strong baby-boom generation – those born between 1946 and 1964 – retires and collects benefits, accounting for the largest increase in government spending and prospective deficits in the years ahead.
In absolute terms, China is now the world’s largest greenhouse-gas emitter, accounting for more than 25% of the global total.
Investment in statistical capacity would help governments and businesses worldwide to make better policy decisions, based on a more accurate accounting of the associated costs and benefits.
By working with the World Bank and the China Development Bank (CDB), Shanghai and Guangdong created an innovative institutional structure to facilitate the coordination of stakeholders to deliver specific infrastructure projects, employing the legal and accounting tools of modern corporations.
Prior to the 1950’s, output drops of 15-20% in a single year were routine (admittedly, national income accounting was more primitive.)
Accounting for diminished economic productivity, direct costs to health-care systems, and the investment required to mitigate the impact of obesity, the McKinsey report places the annual losses at $2 trillion, or 2.8% of world GDP.
Creative accounting gimmicks masked the full extent of the problem.
Public accounting standards also could allow infrastructure assets to be depreciated over their life cycle, rather than immediately adding their costs to fiscal deficits during construction.
If hard work was all it took to rise into the upper echelons of power in corporate America, one would expect to see many Asian American faces at the top, perhaps especially in financial services, accounting, technology, and health care.
Given the EU’s robust relationship with Israel – underpinned by its role as Israel’s largest trade partner, accounting for roughly 26% of total Israeli exports and 34% of its imports – it can develop powerful incentives that could provide the impetus that the peace process needs to succeed.
Governments, insurance companies, and patients use these names and codes in accounting and budgeting.
Since 2013, Russian trade sanctions have slashed Ukraine’s exports to the country by 70% – accounting for a drop of 18% in Ukraine’s total exports.
Putting China aside, India’s economy grew by 6.5% in 2011-2012, with services up by 9% and accounting for 58% of India’s GDP growth – a stabilizing factor when a world in recession cannot afford to buy more manufactured goods.
Since its formation, the network has grown to include 34 countries, accounting for $42.6 trillion in bank assets – equivalent to more than 85% of emerging markets’ total bank holdings.
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