NATIONAL ACCOUNT definition | Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of national account in English

(Definition of national account from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of national account

national account
Our regional sales manager had previously been a national account exec with a major, publicly-held newspaper conglomerate.
In order to analyze the relative importance of the depreciation values with respect to national account figures, we compared them to timber activity value added.
Governments should report these liabilities in national accounts, like other subsidies, and exact a proper price for them.
Traditionally, investment in human capital, which can be thought of as the education, skills and health per person, are not included in the national accounts.
Even when part of the output that is sold at a premium in unofficial or free-market, the national accounts typically apply the official prices.
In addition, national accounts also include the consumption by non-households.
He depends on national and international sources (such as national accounts and estimates of unemployment and poverty levels), which allow for a thorough analysis.
The production elasticity of capital is set to α = 0.33 such that we match the share of capital income in national accounts.
The term "sinking fund," as applied to the national accounts, is a misleading phrase.
The present year, therefore, shows a steady reduction of those ugly figures at the wrong side of the national account.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
 
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