surplus

If the balance of payment is a double entry accounting record, then apart from errors and omissions, it must always balance. Obviously, the terms “deficit” or “surplus” cannot refer to the entire BOP but must indicate imbalance on a subset of accounts included in the BOP. The “imbalance” must be...

Why does a country experience a surplus or deficit in its trade balance? To answer this question, one must look at what the country imports and exports, and why. For example, a country may import a large quantity of oil because it does not produce oil itself. Conversely, it may export a...

Shares and debentures: - the company invests its surplus funds in the outside corporate securities. i.e. shares and debentures of other companies. The company gets dividend and interest from these idle investments. Government bonds: - The company can invest its surplus funds in the various...

CAG accuses SEBI of violating norms on surplus funds 24 Oct, 2008 NEW DELHI: Market regulator SEBI has come under the scanner of Comptroller and Auditor General of India, as the apex auditor has charged the regul ator with not following official guidelines to keep surplus funds earned by it...

Marginal cut on Japan trade surplus Japan’s Finance Ministry officially announced today that country’s customs-cleared trade surplus shrank 12.2% in November from a year earlier to 797.4 billion yen for the first fall in four months as the value of imports was inflated by high crude oil...