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When market liquidity becomes tight, as it is currently, sales decisions and valuations based on mark-to-market accounting reinforce the downward spiral by causing further forced sell-offs, which amplifies the decline in mark-to-market prices.
As the world’s population ages, the incidence of NCDs is expected to rise, accounting for 52 million deaths annually by 2030.
Because of tax advantages and inappropriate accounting practices firms richly rewarded executives with stock options.
America's Securities and Exchange Commission's head recognized the problems posed by conflicts of interests in accounting, but his efforts to put in place rules to address the problem met with overwhelming resistance from the industry--until the scandals made change irresistible.
Similarly, the accounting problems with executive stock options were recognized by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, but again early efforts at reform met with resistance, from the obvious sources.
But, much as the Bush administration tried to hide the true costs of the war by incomplete and misleading accounting, the economy’s flaws were covered up by a flood of liquidity from the Federal Reserve and by lax financial regulation.
A third of these cases were in Africa, accounting for almost 700,000 lives and economic damage of about $27 billion.
It has the largest economy, accounting for 28% of eurozone GDP and 25% of the eurozone’s population.
Medicare expenditure – the money spent by the government insurance program for the elderly – is projected to soar from 2.6% of GDP currently to 9.2% in 2050, with technology accounting for over 50% of the cost increase.
The effectiveness of the G20’s 2008 and 2009 summits raised hopes that, at a time of rapid change, this emerging platform, comprising economies accounting for 85% of world output, could serve as a global fire brigade.
But, with consumption accounting for 35% of national income (compared to 70% in the US!), there is vast room to grow.
It remains a “one-crop economy,” with energy accounting for two-thirds of its exports.
Given Europe’s facility at creative accounting, some way will be found to keep Greece on life support.
But the same is true in China: anti-inflation protests are now roiling both countries, owing mainly to rising energy, food, and raw-material prices, with food accounting for one-third of household spending in China and around 45% in India.
If we generate our own economic surplus without accounting for it – what the American writer Clay Shirky calls “cognitive surplus” – how does that influence reported economic statistics and, ultimately, shape incentives and activities?
Before the revolution, Libya produced nearly 1.6 million barrels of oil per day, accounting for 96% of the country’s export earnings.
Germany is the EU’s most populous state and its economic powerhouse, accounting for over 20% of the bloc’s GDP.
In the area of tax avoidance, discussion needs to broaden beyond developed economies; as the International Monetary Fund recently pointed out, developing economies’ budgets are disproportionately affected by multinational companies’ savvy accounting strategies.
In fact, the value of assets held by such funds fluctuates, and it is only an accounting convention – permitted by regulators – that allows them to report a stable value.
Nonetheless, China is the bank’s largest borrower, accounting for more than a quarter of its loan portfolio (China and India alone account for half the total, whereas Japanese companies win only around 1% of bids for ADB financing).
No precise accounting of this vast corruption is possible.
Chile sets a target for its cyclically-adjusted fiscal balance – that is, the balance that emerges after accounting for the deviations in commodity prices and domestic output from their trends.
Moreover, China’s fiscal position remains strong: even after accounting for all sorts of contingent liabilities – such as local-government loans, large project loans, and commercial banks’ non-performing loans in the event of a housing-market crash, China’s public debt/GDP ratio is still below 60%.
The importance of this is highlighted by the fact that the private sector contributes more than 60% of China’s GDP, 50% of its taxes, 70% of its technological and product innovations, and 80% of its jobs, despite accounting for less than 40% of inputs.
After all, Japanese exports rely on emerging and developing markets, with East Asia alone accounting for nearly half of Japan’s foreign sales.
With China accounting for 90% of Mongolian exports, the Chinese authorities set out to teach Mongolia a lesson.
Appropriate accounting, separating expenditures for recapitalizing banks from ordinary expenditures, such as those needed to run hospitals and schools, would make clear that these expenditures are not by themselves inflationary.
In such an economically insecure global environment, riddled with protectionist booby traps, a free-trade pact between the world’s two largest trading blocs, accounting for roughly 40% of global GDP, has never been more important.
The US must respond to the allegations – first leveled in a report published by the German magazine Der Spiegel – and give a proper accounting of its actions.
Fair value accounting has multiplied opportunities for imaginary earnings, such as Skilling’s profits on gas trading.
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