- Docente: Jacopo Di Cocco
- Credits: 4
- SSD: SECS-S/03
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics and Accounting (cod. 0896)
Learning outcomes
Course contents
Course contents
1. What is the System of National Accounts 2008
2. SNA and ESA
3. The conceptual elements of the SNA
a. Activities and transactions
b. The institutional sectors of the economy
c. Accounts and their corresponding economic activities
4. The boundaries of the SNA
5. Rules of accounting
6. The accounts
a. The full sequence of accounts
b. The three sections of the sequence of accounts
i. The production account
ii. The distribution of income accounts
iii. The accumulation accounts
iv. The rest of the world accounts and links to the balance of payments
c. Assets and liabilities
d. Balance sheets
e. Functional analysis
f. Population and labour inputs tables
7. Uses of the SNA
a. Monitoring the behaviour of the economy
b. Macroeconomic analysis
c. International comparisons
8. Links with business accounting
a. International accounting standards
9. Expanding the scope of the SNA
a. The SNA and measures of welfare
10. The integrated central framework and flexibility
a. The central supply and use table and other input-output tables
b. Introducing social accounting matrices
c. Introducing satellite accounts
Readings/Bibliography
Teaching methods
Assessment methods
Teaching tools
The teacher utilizes slides, statistical tables on spreadsheet, statistical static and dynamic graphs, papers and manuals downloaded from specialized sites. After lessons utilized documents are uploaded in AMS-Campus, link “Materiali” on these Guide web or on University portals. For other inquiries see: http://www.unibo.it/docenti/jacopo.dicocco, www.cib.unibo.it/dicocco/.
Links to further information
http://www.cib.unibo.it/CN.htm
Office hours
See the website of Jacopo Di Cocco