Balance of Payments Current Account • • • • Bal. on Goods Bal. on Services Bal. on Income Bal. on Current Transfers Capital Account Capital Transfers Financial Account • • • • Direct Invest. Portfolio Invest. Other Invest. Reserve Assets.

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Transcript Balance of Payments Current Account • • • • Bal. on Goods Bal. on Services Bal. on Income Bal. on Current Transfers Capital Account Capital Transfers Financial Account • • • • Direct Invest. Portfolio Invest. Other Invest. Reserve Assets.

Slide 1

Balance of Payments

Current
Account





Bal. on Goods
Bal. on Services
Bal. on Income
Bal. on Current
Transfers

Capital
Account
Capital Transfers

Financial
Account





Direct Invest.
Portfolio Invest.
Other Invest.
Reserve Assets


Slide 2

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• Balance on GOODS: we buy and sell goods internationally.
The value of
minus

Reciepts for Exported GOODS
Payments for Imported GOODS

• Balance on SERVICES: we buy and sell services such as tourism

and insurance.
Current
Account

The value of Reciepts for SERVICES sold
minus Payments for SERVICES bought

• Balance on INCOME: NZers invest overseas to earn income and
international investors do the same in NZ.
The INCOME earned from NZ investment abroad
minus INCOME paid the overseas investment in NZ

• Balance on CURRENT TRANSFERS: examples would include aid
payments or pensions paid internationally.

The value of
minus

Reciepts
Payments


Slide 3

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This account includes:
• all transactions that involve the receipt or payment of capital
transfers (eg debt forgiveness, transfer of migrants’ wealth )
• the acquisition or disposal of non-produced, non-financial
assets (eg patents, copyrights,
Capitaletc)

Account


Slide 4

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• Net Indirect Investment: private investment that involves taking
ownership of 10% or more of a business overseas.

• Net Portfolio Investment: international investment that takes less
than 10% ownership.

• Other Investment:

Financial
trade credits, overseas loans and deposits.
Account

• Reserve Assets: NZ’s official overseas reserves (currency) held by
the RBNZ or Treasury.

These are all NET flows,
found by deducting
the inflow from the outflow


Slide 5

The combination of the:

Current
Account

+

Capital
Account

+

Financial
Account

represents the country’s:

Balance of Payments
If a country overspends on its Current Account (eg: buys more
goods than it sells), it must borrow on its Financial Account to
fund this excess spending.
Technically, therefore, the Balance of Payments should always
In practice it is not, so any residual balance
be zero.
is recorded in the Financial Account as:
Net Errors and Omissions

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Slide 6

Classifying Trade Transactions
Copy the following table and correctly classify the transactions. Some may
go into more than one column.
Bal on
Goods

Singapore Air sells tickets on an
Auckland/Singapore flight to NZers
Air NZ purchases a new aircraft overseas
Fonterra sells $30m of milk powder to
Africa

Bal on
Service

Current
Account













Fletcher Forests buys 10,000 h of forests
in Canada

Peter Jackson’s film company earns $5m
from its investment in a US company
The NZ government gives $5m to
rebuilding schools in Iraq

Financial
Account






Slide 7

Calculating Trade Balances
Use the following information to calculate the balances asked for:
$m

Export of Goods

31 689

Export of Services

11 450

Import of Goods

30 854

Given these balances:

Import
of is
Services
What
the Balance of Payments? 10 962

$502m

Inflow of Current Transfers

Outflow of Current Transfers

Income
from
Foreign
Investment
What
is the
value of

Net from
ErrorsInvestment
and Omissions?
Income
Abroad

Balance on Goods:

$835m

Balance on Services: $488m

Balance on Income: -$6782m

1 453
957
8 456
1 674

Capital Account Inflow-$502m

532

Capital Account Outflow

167

Foreign Investment in NZ

6 081

NZ Investment Abroad

1 985

Balance on Current Transfers:
$496m
Balance on Current Account:
-$4963m
Balance on Capital Account:
$365m
Balance on Financial Account:
$4096m


Slide 8

Calculating Trade Balances (the financial account)
Use the following information to calculate the balances asked for:
$m

New Zealand Investment Abroad
Direct Investment

269

Portfolio Investment

996

Other Investment
Reserve Assets

2 496

Net Portfolio Investment:
a net INFLOW of $1393m

-480

Foreign Investment in New Zealand
Direct Investment

Net Direct Investment:
a net INFLOW of $349m

618

Portfolio Investment

2 389

Other Investment

1 037

Balance on Financial Account:
a net INFLOW of $763m
What impact is this balance going to
have on other parts of the Balance
of Payments?


Slide 9

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Slide 10

Why should the Balance of Payments always equal zero?
So,for
If,
in example,
theory at our
least,
spending
whatever
onhappens
imports is
togreater
the Current
than our
export receipts
Account
will be our
balanced
Current
byAccount
an opposite
will move
change
into
to deficit
the
(a
net outflow
Financial
Account
of funds).
To pay for our overspending we must borrow, recorded as an
inflow on the Financial Account.
back

Surplus

Deficit

Inflow
Current
Account
Balance

Financial
Account
Balance

Outflow