Which One of the Following Items Is a "Credit" Item

question 5

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following items is a "credit" item in a country's balance-of-payments accounts?

• A) unilateral transfers received from another country
• B) decrease in short-term home country assets owned by foreign private citizens
• C) imports of goods
• D) domestic purchase of a foreign corporation's bond

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Definitions:

Statistical Process Control

A method of quality control which employs statistical methods to monitor and control a process to ensure that it operates at its full potential.

Special Causes

Special causes, in the context of quality control, refer to unusual, unpredictable factors that cause variations in a process, distinguishing them from common causes.

Common Causes

Factors that consistently contribute to a process's variability; inherent within the process and usually indicative of systemic issues.

Variation

The extent to which data points in a dataset differ from each other and from their average value.