Balance-of-payments accounting always involves double entries because the inflow of goods and services is always accompanied by

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Balance-of-payments accounting always involves double entries because the inflow of goods and services is always accompanied by financial outflows and vice versa. For each of the following scenarios, show how both sides of the transaction are recorded in the balance of payments.
a. A U.S. tourist goes to Mexico and pays for the trip with funds previously held in a Mexican bank account. (Assume that the value of the trip is $5,000.)
b. The U.S. government gives $1,000,000 in foreign aid to Iraq.
c. Kodak, a U.S. company, sells photographic film in Europe and receives €50,000 in exchange. (Assume that the exchange rate is $1 = €1.)
d. Kodak exchanges the €50,000 received in the previous transaction for dollars at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
e. A French investor sells $200,000 worth of stock in a U.S. company and puts the proceeds into a bank in the United States. Exchange Rate
The value of one currency for the purpose of conversion to another. Exchange Rate means on any day, for purposes of determining the Dollar Equivalent of any currency other than Dollars, the rate at which such currency may be exchanged into Dollars...
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Macroeconomics

ISBN: 9780132109994

1st Edition

Authors: Glenn Hubbard, Anthony Patrick O'Brien, Matthew P Rafferty

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