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  2. Current account (balance of payments) - Wikipedia

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    The current account balance is one of two major measures of a country's foreign trade (the other being the net capital outflow). A current account surplus indicates that the value of a country's net foreign assets (i.e. assets less liabilities) grew over the period in question, and a current account deficit indicates that it shrank. Both ...

  3. Balance of payments - Wikipedia

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    Country foreign exchange reserves minus external debt. In international economics, the balance of payments (also known as balance of international payments and abbreviated BOP or BoP) of a country is the difference between all money flowing into the country in a particular period of time (e.g., a quarter or a year) and the outflow of money to the rest of the world.

  4. Transaction account - Wikipedia

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    A transaction account, also called a checking account, chequing account, current account, demand deposit account, or share account at credit unions, is a deposit account or bank account held at a bank or other financial institution. It is available to the account owner "on demand" and is available for frequent and immediate access by the ...

  5. Current account - Wikipedia

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    Current account or Current Account may refer to: Current account (balance of payments), a country's balance of trade, net of factor income and cash transfers; Current account (banking), a checking account, held at a bank or other financial institution; Current account mortgage, a type of flexible mortgage loan

  6. Glossary of economics - Wikipedia

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    The current account balance is one of two major measures of a country's foreign trade (the other being the net capital outflow). A current account surplus indicates that the value of a country's net foreign assets (i.e. assets less liabilities) grew over the period in question, and a current account deficit indicates that it shrank.

  7. Bank - Wikipedia

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    The bank credits a credit account to increase its balance, and debits a credit account to decrease its balance. [ 47 ] The customer debits his or her savings/bank (asset) in his ledger when making a deposit (and the account is normally in debit), while the customer credits a credit card (liability) account in his ledger every time he spends ...

  8. Deposit account - Wikipedia

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    Deposit accounts can be savings accounts, current accounts or any of several other types of accounts explained below. Transactions on deposit accounts are recorded in a bank's books, and the resulting balance is recorded as a liability of the bank and represents an amount owed by the bank to the customer. In other words, the banker-customer ...

  9. Balance of trade - Wikipedia

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    Cumulative current account balance 1980–2008 based on International Monetary Fund data Cumulative current account balance per capita 1980–2008 based on International Monetary Fund data. Balance of trade is the difference between the monetary value of a nation's exports and imports of goods over a certain time period. [1]