System of National Accounts for Ecosystem Accounting

The course ‘System of National Account for Ecosystem Accounting’ provide students with core knowledge of the internationally agreed set of recommendations on how to compile measures of economic activity in accordance with strict accounting conventions based on economic principles.

The accounting framework of the System of National Accounts presents in a condensed way a great mass of detailed information, organised according to economic principles and perceptions, about the working of an economy. The student will learn how to apply the framework that will provide him/her with a comprehensive and detailed record of the complex economic activities taking place within an economy and of the interaction between the different economic agents, and groups of agents, that takes place on markets or elsewhere.