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Capital Account

Definitions: Capital Account

Capital Account

Noun

1. (economics) that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's outflow and inflow of financial securities.

2. (finance) an account of the net value of a business at a specified date.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Specialty Definitions: Capital Account

DomainDefinitions

Business

An account showing one's own possessions, to which are transferred profits and losses; it may also be an account showing capital income and capital expenditure. Source: European Union. (references)
 An account showing changes of ownership and other specified changes in an economy's foreign financial assets and foreign liabilities. Source: European Union. (references)

Economics

The capital account records for the different sectors transactions linked to investment in non-financial assets and capital transfers involving the redistribution of wealth. Source: European Union. (references)

Statistics

Data refer to capital and financial accounts. Change in official reserves is included. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Capital Account

English words defined with "capital account": Stock accountWages fund. (references)
Specialty definitions using "capital account": krav på indbetaling af selskabskapitalNo Net Cost Tobacco Act of 1982yield to maturity. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Capital Account

DomainTitle

Books

  • Capital account convertibility : review of experience and implications for IMF policies (reference)

  • Capital Account Liberalization and Financial Sector Stability / (reference)

  • Capital Account Regimes and the Developing Countries (reference)

  • Globalization liberalizing the capital account in Sri Lanka (reference)

  • IMF-Supported Programs in Capital Account Crises (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Capital Account

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Indonesia continues to maintain an open capital account and no foreign exchange controls. (references)

The Provisions also provide procedures for the establishment of foreign exchange accounts for capital account transactions. (references)

Economic History

Bangladesh

However, restrictions apply to capital account transactions. (references)

Portugal

Portugal maintains no current or capital account restrictions. (references)

Ireland

Ireland enjoys full current and capital account liberalization. (references)

Political Economy

BRAZIL

The government has acted to remove impediments to a fully convertible currency, both for current and capital account transactions. (references)

CZECH REPUBLIC

As of 2000, all capital account restrictions were removed except for the purchase of real estate in the Czech Republic by foreigners. (references)

INDIA

Controls remain on capital account transactions, with the exception of those made by Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and foreign institutional investors. (references)

Trade

India

However, Indian firms and individuals remain subject to capital account restrictions. (references)

Romania

The passage to the next step, i.e. capital account convertibility, may take several years. (references)

China

In mid-1998, however, SAFE cracked down on many of the loopholes used to get around the controls on capital account transactions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Capital Account

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

intellectual capital account

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Capital Account

Language Translations for "capital account"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

konti for permanent kapital (fixed capital accounts), kapitalkonto (capital, owner's equity account). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

rekeningen van vast kapitaal (fixed capital accounts), kapitaalrekening van de betalingsbalans, kapitaalrekening (owner's equity account), kapitaaldienst, kapitaalbalans, buitengewone dienst. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pääomatili. (various references)

   

French

  

comptes de capitaux permanents (fixed capital accounts), compte de capital, compte capitaux, compte capital, dépense imputable sur le capital, budget de capital, budget d'équipement, balance des opérations en capital. (various references)

   

German

  

Kapitalkonto (owner's equity account). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ισοζύγιο κίνησης κεφαλαίων, λογαριασμόσ κεφαλαίων, λογαριασμός κεφαλαίου (owner's equity account), λογαριασμοί μονίμων κεφαλαίων (fixed capital accounts). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tőkeszámla. (various references)

   

Italian

  

conto della formazione del capitale, conto del capitale (owner's equity account), conto capitale, conti di capitali permanenti (fixed capital accounts), bilancia delle operazioni in conto capitale, bilancia dei movimenti di capitali. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

apitalcay accountay

   

Portuguese

  

contas de capitais permanentes (fixed capital accounts), conta de capital (owner's equity account), balança de operaçoes de capital, balança de capitais. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cuentas de capitales permanentes (fixed capital accounts), cuenta de capital del presupuesto, cuenta de capital (owner's equity account), balanza por cuenta de capital. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sermaye hesabı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Capital Account

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-c-c-i-l-n-o-p-t-t-u"

-5 letters: actuation, aplanatic, cantaloup, catalatic, catatonia, catatonic, cocaptain, lactation, placation.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Capital Account


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 70 69 74 61 6C      41 63 63 6F 75 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01110000 01101001 01110100 01100001 01101100 00100000 01000001 01100011 01100011 01101111 01110101 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#112 &#105 &#116 &#97 &#108 &#32 &#65 &#99 &#99 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0070 0069 0074 0061 006C      0041 0063 0063 006F 0075 006E 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37678275866778235696981878086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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