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Interest under high inflation

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The treatment of nominal holding gains and interest on financial assets under conditions of high inflation was described in the 1993 SNA (Chapter XIX, Annex B) and subsequently in the OECD publication A Manual on Inflation Accounting. These two publications take different approaches, however. What should appear in the 1993 SNA Rev. 1.

Corresponding papers (Click on icon to see document in either pdf or word format)
AEG papers:Posted on 2006-01-18Click here to see pdf documentClick here to see word documentInterest under high inflation
 Posted on 2004-04-28Click here to see pdf documentClick here to see word documentAccounting for interest under high inflation
 
AEG summaries:Papers not yet available

Statistics
Number of AEG recommendations:none
Number of country comments:5
Number of expert comments:none

Meetings
The issue was discussed at the following meetings:
February 2004, Jan/Feb 2006

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