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A currency serves three functions: providing a means of payment, a unit of account and a store of value. Gold may be a store of value for wealth, but it is not a means of payment. You cannot pay for your groceries with it. Nor is it a unit of account. Prices of goods and services, and of financial assets, are not denominated in gold terms.
Nouriel Roubini

Meaning of "unit of account" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNIT OF ACCOUNT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNIT OF ACCOUNT

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Unit of account is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES UNIT OF ACCOUNT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Unit of account

A unit of account is a standard monetary unit of measurement of value/cost of goods, services, or assets. It is one of three well-known functions of money. It lends meaning to profits, losses, liability, or assets. The unit of account suffers from the pitfall of not being stable over time. Inflation destroys the assumption that the unit of account is stable which is the basis of classic accountancy. In such circumstances, historical values registered in accountancy books become heterogeneous amounts measured in different units. The use of such data under traditional accounting methods without previous correction often leads to invalid results.

Definition of unit of account in the English dictionary

The first definition of unit of account in the dictionary is the function of money that enables the user to keep accounts, value transactions, etc. Other definition of unit of account is Also called : money of account. a monetary denomination used for accounting purposes, etc, but not necessarily corresponding to any real currency. Unit of account is also the unit of currency of a country.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNIT OF ACCOUNT

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unit character
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unit holder
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unit of measurement
unit price
unit pricing
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unit set
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unit-linked policy
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WORDS THAT END LIKE UNIT OF ACCOUNT

account
amount
at a discount
bank account
business account
call to account
checking account
count
current account
current-account
discount
no-account
on account
pollen count
recount
savings account
time discount
to account
trading account
viscount
volume discount

Synonyms and antonyms of unit of account in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «unit of account» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNIT OF ACCOUNT

Find out the translation of unit of account to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of unit of account from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unit of account» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

计价单位
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

unidad de cuenta
570 millions of speakers

English

unit of account
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

खाते की इकाई
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

وحدة الحساب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

расчетная единица
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

unidade de conta
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হিসাবের একক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

unité de compte
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Unit akaun
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Rechnungseinheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

計算単位
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

계정 단위
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Unit akun
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đơn vị tính toán
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கணக்கு அலகு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खात्याची एकक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hesap birimi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Unità di conto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

jednostki rozliczeniowej
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розрахункова одиниця
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

unitate de cont
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λογιστική μονάδα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

rekeneenheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

enhet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

enhet av konto
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about unit of account

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QUOTES WITH «UNIT OF ACCOUNT»

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Nouriel Roubini
A currency serves three functions: providing a means of payment, a unit of account and a store of value. Gold may be a store of value for wealth, but it is not a means of payment. You cannot pay for your groceries with it. Nor is it a unit of account. Prices of goods and services, and of financial assets, are not denominated in gold terms.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNIT OF ACCOUNT»

Discover the use of unit of account in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unit of account and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Cambridge Economic History of Europe
coin and assumed a permanent relation to the Flemish unit of account (viz. I Flemish pound groat of account = 1-5 Brabant pounds groat of account). From the reform of 1433-4 onwards, the value of the Brabant pound groat was consequently ...
Sir John Harold Clapham, Michael Moïssey Postan, H. J. Habakkuk, 1941
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Accounting for Income Taxes 2009
Richard Petersen. EXCERPT FROM OFFICIAL TEXT Recognition 5. The appropriate unit of account for determining what constitutes an individual tax position, and whether the more-likely-than-not recognition threshold is met for a tax position, ...
Richard Petersen, 2008
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Basic Documents on International Trade Law
The use of the SDR as a unit of account has been regarded as a significant improvement over the use of gold or of a national currency. After considering the establishment of a unit of account that could be used in conventions universally and ...
Chia-Jui Cheng, Jiarui Cheng, 1990
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Money, Coordination, and Prices
decision, since it invokes a coordination problem. Money as a unit of account A unit of account is a good in terms of which prices are quoted, accounts are kept and whose own unit price is one by definition. In a world with imperfect information ...
S. G. van der Lecq, 2000
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Legal Effects of Fluctuating Exchange Rates
The definition does not limit composite units of account in which it would be valid to express obligations to the SDR and the ECU, but any other unit of account would fall within the definition of "money" only if the unit of account was authorized ...
Joseph Gold, 1990
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Balance of Payments Manual (EPub)
The conversion of these values into a reference unit of account (usually the national currency of the compiler) is a requisite for the construction of consistent and analytically meaningful statements. In addition, a standard or universal unit of ...
International Monetary Fund, 2005
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The Future of the SDR in Light of Changes in the ...
The case for a separate unit of account for private international transactions rests on two pillars. First, one of the main arguments for the coincidence of the unit of account and the unit of the means of exchange — convenience — by definition ...
Mr. James M. Boughton, Mr. Peter Isard, Mr. Michael Mussa, 1996
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Functioning of the International Monetary System
exchange and the indicated amount of gold for which it was redeemable was the unit of account. Monetary systems can be divided into those that take a unit of money as their unit of account (quantity standards) and those that do not (price ...
Jacob A. Frenkel, Morris Goldstein, 1996
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Institutional Change in the Payments System and Monetary Policy
currently in place: CB money remains the generally accepted medium of exchange and the unit of account but the degree of tiering in the payments system increases further. All means of payments are denominated in the uniform unit of ...
Stefan W. Schmitz, Chair of International Business Adjunct Professor Geoffrey Wood, Geoffrey Wood, 2007
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The Evolution of the Money Standard in Medieval Frisia: A ...
For instance, the English penny coin, or sterling, was once the standard of value for the English (and Frisian) money unit of account. Hence, when the standard is such a coin, its gold or silver content defines the gold or silver equivalence of the  ...
Dirk Jan Henstra, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNIT OF ACCOUNT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unit of account is used in the context of the following news items.
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What Next in the Greek Crisis?
Euros will remain the unit of account, but scrip can be introduced as an additional means of payment. And since this means of payment is only acceptable for ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Jul 15»
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Is the time ripe for a new global reserve currency?
Instead, SDR constitute potential claims on freely usable currencies of IMF member states, and serve as unit of account in the IMF. A holder of SDR can obtain ... «Global Risk Insights, Jul 15»
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CORRECTED-INSIGHT-China knocking on door of IMF's major …
... the major league of reserve currencies with a deal possible later this year to include the yuan in the International Monetary Fund's unit of account, international ... «Reuters, Apr 15»
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Bitcoin Might Not Be Money, but Cryptocurrencies are the Way of the …
Thanks to its volatility, Bitcoin is unreliable enough that it is useless as a unit of account. A unit of account is a well understood measurement for defining and ... «Cato Institute, Dec 14»
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Chinese Currency 101 Explainer: Is It RMB, CNY or CNH?
But because of its history as a closed and managed exchange rate with limited trading there is some confusion as to how to describe the Chinese unit of account ... «Business Insider Australia, Nov 14»
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What Does the Consumer Price Index Measure? Inflation or Cost of …
On the other hand, we can best understand inflation as a change in the value of our unit of account, the dollar. When there is inflation, the value of the unit is ... «EconoMonitor, Jul 14»
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Bitcoin's deflation problem
Rather, it is that deflation will prevent Bitcoin from becoming a unit of account, and that, in turn, will keep it from displacing traditional currencies. But Bitcoin could ... «The Economist, Apr 14»
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Why Bitcoin Can No Longer Work as a Virtual Currency, in 1 …
Finally, as a unit of account, Bitcoin had to have a standard numerical value to be used to measure profits and settle debts. It had to be divisible (which it was, ... «The Atlantic, Mar 14»
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Money from nothing
And it should function as a unit of account: a statistical yardstick against which value in an economy is measured. The American dollar meets all three conditions. «The Economist, Mar 14»
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Roubini unleashes Twitter attack on Bitcoin
Bitcoin is not a unit of account as no price of goods and services is set in Bitcoin unit nor it ever will. So it isn't a currency — Nouriel Roubini (@Nouriel) March 9, ... «MINING.com, Mar 14»

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