Improving the National Account According to Economical and Environmental Changes

Chalabi, Ayad

doi:10.33899/tanra.2005.161623

	Improving the National Account According to Economical and Environmental Changes
TANMIYAT AL-RAFIDAIN
Article 9, Volume 27, Issue 77, 2005, Pages 146-163 PDF (196.9 K)
DOI: 10.33899/tanra.2005.161623
Author
Ayad Chalabi
Abstract
The improving of national accounting according to the economical and environmental changes is regarded as an important matter, specially that the national accounting is regarded as a means to measure and analyze the monetary flows from economic units, which produce goods and services, and among the consumers households for these goods and services at the cost of factors of production. As a goal of national accounting is to provide an accurate data and information to express the level of economical and social walfare. But it will be imperfect unless it is correlated with the listing of the movement and inventory of exhausting the natural resources, environmental degradation, as well as to defences of environmental protection, that was based on specific environment indicators from environment professionals, expressed by physical and monetary criteria, during a period of time consistent with the nature of time period adopted in national accounting, which is one year only. This is called the environmental accounting, which must be linked with the national accounting, either accounting to terms complemented to national accounting, or a guideline accompanied it, based on an accounting treatments shared between the introspection the present economic reality with what it includes to future generations.
Keywords
National Accounts; Economic and Environmental Changes

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