Use of financial accounts and balance sheets by institutional sector

Institutional sector accounts shed greater light on economic, financial and monetary developments, which can be only partially revealed by monetary and financial statistics, balance of payments statistics or government finance statistics. In particular, the accounts provide additional information for the analysis of macroeconomic developments by institutional sector and a comprehensive framework to complement and combine data provided by other, timelier statistics. In this context, comprehensive stockflow (transactions, revaluations and other flows) relationships, which may be derived for institutional sector accounts, are analytically useful for various purposes. Institutional sector accounts are also a means of achieving consistency in the various source data.

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