2.1.4- Balance of payments

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  • What is Balance of payments ?

    Record of a country's economic transactions with the rest of the world.
  • What is Currrent account?
    records transactions of goods and services and income between residents and non residents
  • What is capital account?

    The capital account is a component of a country's balance of payments that records the flow of financial assets between a country and the rest of the world.
  • What is financial account?

    Record of a company's financial transactions and investments
  • What is current account deflict and surplus ?
    deficit- occurs when a country’s total imports of goods and services income exceeds its total exports. Spending more on foreign country’s than its earning
    Surplus-occurs when a countries total exports of good/ services indicated that it’s eating more foreign trade than it’s earning