Functional Analysis in Economic Accounting
Functional Analysis in Economic Accounting
SAN MARCOS
(University of Peru; Dean of America)
2015
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I. FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
In addition, a unit can perform auxiliary activities whose production is not intended
its use outside of the unit; a support activity aimed at creating the
favorable conditions that allow the development of the main activity and the secondary ones.
a) Current accounts; they deal with production, generation, distribution, and redistribution.
a of income and its use in the form of final consumption
b) Accumulation accounts; those that reflect the variations of assets with liabilities
a and the variations of net worth.
c) Balances; they show the stocks of assets and liabilities and the net value
The integrated economic accounts constitute the core of the accounting framework of current
accounting systems; these have the ability to associate the accounts of the sectors and
of the total economy. These accounts do not include financial accounts either
They include accounts of other variations of assets or non-financial balances.
As has been seen, the type of production determines the type of producer and this causes a
institutional unit is classified within a sector, that is to say, market prices are the
basic reference for valuation. It was also seen that there are 3 classes of valuation (to the
basic prices, producer prices, and buyer prices) that differ from each other
for the taxes and subsidies on the products.
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1.3.2 MOMENT OF RECORDING SOME OPERATIONS
There are different criteria for recording flows: cash basis; maturity basis
payment; payment commitment; and accrual criteria.
All these criteria have their advantages and disadvantages and are used for different purposes in
in the core of companies, in the case of accounts, the accrual criterion is prioritized.
1.3.3 THE TWO CONCEPTS OF FINAL CONSUMPTION
2.1.1. DEFINITION
Formed by individuals or a group of individuals who collectively assume
ultimately take responsibility for consuming.
2.1.2. SUBSECTORING
It can be subsectorized according to the income category of each household taking into account
such: (Employers, Employees, etc.)
2.2. ACCOUNTS
The value of market production reflects the result of the activity of companies.
individuals. Regarding production for personal final use, it includes services of
rentals.
The remuneration of employees includes the total cost of the labor factor, including the
remunerations in kind and the effective and allocated contributions which
corresponds to what employees should pay to their employers for the
social benefits.
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2.2.3. ACCOUNT FOR PRIMARY INCOME ALLOCATION
While the profit and loss account deals with the income generated in the process
productive; the primary income allocation account deals with the
units/sectors residents as recipients of such income.
This account includes all operations that redistribute income and that, among others
fines help to correct social imbalances. These accounts record the
current transfers related to non-life insurance include the transfers
various currents (remittances from emigrants, fines)
This account records the expenditure on final consumption of goods and services made by
homes in the economic territory as in the rest of the world.
This account records the individual effective final consumption. The transaction is the same as
In the previous account, the D.8 and the accounting balance is the savings balance; due to the fact that the
the increase in resources and jobs is the same
In the capital account, the first entry to comment on is the capital transfers to
charge and pay. The account balance is the net loan – net indebtedness; which is
the amount that the sector has available to finance other sectors.
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b) SPATIAL: Ultimately, it is about defining the national and internal concepts of
final consumption of households.
Where (A): final consumption of resident households carried out in the economic territory of the country
final consumption of non-resident households carried out in the economic territory of the country
Follow the general criterion of recording expenses for the purchase of an asset when it takes place.
change of ownership and those for acquiring a service when its provision ends.
The sources of information used for estimating final consumption expenditure of the
Households are diverse; the most important in Spain is the Household Expenditure Survey.
3.1.1. DEFINITION
It is the set of entities endowed with legal personality that are market producers.
whose main activity is the production of non-financial goods and services. Among the
The units that make up this sector are: Cooperatives, Private limited companies
and public, Holding Companies, etc.
3.1.2 SUBSECTORING
The criterion used by the system is control, that is, the ability to determine if it
It is necessary to establish the general policy of the company through the appointment of the administrators.
propitious. In this way, the subsectors included in the system, whose accounts very
few countries produce are:
3.2. ACCOUNTS
Each account refers to a specific aspect of economic behavior and shows the entries.
corresponding for the units (institutional and establishments) or groups of units
(institutional sectors, total economy and rest of the world, and activity branches/industries).
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3.2.2. OPERATING ACCOUNT
This account shows the behavior of the sector regarding the income of the
property
The accounts of income distribution and the use of disposable income have been
jointly arranged simply to show that the sector does not carry out for
definition no final consumption transaction, so its disposable income
coincides with saving.
The sector receives capital transfers and pays them in the form of taxes on the
capital and other transfers.
It is calculated according to the linear amortization method, through which the value of the
Fixed assets are amortized at a constant rate throughout the useful life of the asset.
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It includes all societies and quasipartnerships that are primarily dedicated to the
financial intermediation. Financial intermediation consists of channeling funds between the
institutional units that have an excess of funds and those that lack them.
What these institutions do instead of charging them directly for the services of
intermediation is reducing the interest rates they pay on deposits.
The SCN 93' and 95' conventionally define the difference between total revenues
from the property received by the unit that remains in service and the total of the interest paid
for that unit. This conventional treatment requires making adjustments in the
accounts of the IFM.
Its basic function is the compensation of risks, which can be classified into two.
large categories: the so-called social insurance systems (A) and the other insurances (B)
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5.1.1 DEFINITION: Includes all institutional units that are other producers not
from the market whose production is intended for collective or individual consumption.
METHOD 1
CENTRAL GOVERNMENT (Central Administration)
STATE GOVERNMENT (Autonomous communities)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT (Local Corporations)
SOCIAL SECURITY FUNDS (Social Security Administrators
Social
METHOD 2
oS,1321 CENTRAL GOVERNMENT + f.s.s operating at that level
oS,1322 STATE GOVERNMENT + f.s.s operating at that level
oS,1323 LOCAL GOVERNMENT + f.s.s operating at that level
The choice between the two methods depends on the importance and the way of managing the
f.s.s. in each country.
5.2 ACCOUNTS
The taxes listed on this account are indirect taxes. The largest revenues
they come from VAT and taxes on specific consumption.
It is the production that the units of the public authorities supply to other units in a way
free or economically priced
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5.3.2 EXPENDITURE ON FINAL CONSUMPTION OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS
The final consumption expenditure of the public administrations includes two categories:
A series of activities whose importance and economic weight has grown among these activities.
beneficial, those related to education and healthcare; these activities are usually carried out by equipped entities.
with legal personality. The great development of these entities has made the accounting system
nationals have decided to create a specific sector to record their flows and stocks.
6.1 DEFINITION:
Composed of non-profit institutions within the sector include: labor unions;
charitable associations, etc.
Non-profit hospitals
Nursing Homes
HEALTH FOUNDATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS
Social works of the savings banks
Political Parties
UNIONS
NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS
CHURCHES
FOUNDATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS FOR THE DEFENSE OF RIGHTS OF THE
PERSONAS
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6.3 TRANSACTIONS CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SECTOR AND MAIN SOURCES OF
INFORMATION
6.3.1 PRODUCTION
Total production is calculated by the total production costs, that is, as the sum of:
The value of goods and services produced by the IFSLSH that do not constitute either
gross capital formation by own account or household expenditure
The expenses of the ISFLSH on goods and services produced by producers of
market, which supply to households.
7.1.1 DEFINITION:
7.1.2 SUBSECTORING
It is divided into 2 sectors:
EUROPEAN UNION
THIRD COUNTRIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
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7.2.1 CHARACTERISTICS
The accounts of the rest of the world record the transactions between units.
residents and non-residents
They are developed from the perspective of the rest of the world.
The sequence of accounts from the rest of the world follows the same scheme for
the institutional sectors
CURRENT ACCOUNTS
. Balance of trade in goods and services
. External account of primary income and transfers
currents
ACCUMULATION ACCOUNTS
. Account of variations in net worth due to savings and
capital transfers
. Account of acquisitions of non-financial assets
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