Balance-of-payments double-entry bookkeeping. Show how the following transactions should be recorded in the U.S. balance of payments using a double-entry accounting system: ■ Newmont Mining—a U.S. mining concern—exports $400 million worth of copper to China and is paid in the form of a payment drawn on a U.S. bank. ■ DuPont expands its plastics manufacturing capacity in its Polish plant by investing $250 million financed by a dollar bond issue in London (United Kingdom). ■ The central bank of the People’s Bank of China purchases $2.5 billion in the foreign exchange market to slow down the appreciation of the renmimbi. The dollars are invested in five-year U.S. Treasury bonds. ■ The U.S. government provides food assistance to Sudanese refugees in the amount of $25 million worth of flour.
Balance-of-payments double-entry bookkeeping. Show how the following transactions should be recorded in the U.S. balance of payments using a double-entry accounting system:
■ Newmont Mining—a U.S. mining concern—exports $400 million worth of copper to China and is paid in the form of a payment drawn on a U.S. bank.
■ DuPont expands its plastics manufacturing capacity in its Polish plant by investing $250 million financed by a dollar bond issue in London (United Kingdom).
■ The central bank of the People’s Bank of China purchases $2.5 billion in the foreign exchange market to slow down the appreciation of the renmimbi. The dollars are invested in five-year U.S. Treasury bonds.
■ The U.S. government provides food assistance to Sudanese refugees in the amount of $25 million worth of flour.
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