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Glossary A-Z

 
F.O.B Price
Description

The f.o.b. price (free on board price) is the c.i.f. price less the costs of transportation, together with insurance charges, between the customs frontier of the exporting (importing) country and that of the importing (exporting) country.


Source : National Accounts
Source Detail : Gross Domestics Product (GDP)
fauna
Description

All animal life.


Source : Environment
Source Detail : Compendium of Environment Statistics
final consumption
Description

Final consumption consists of goods and services used by individual households or the community to satisfy their individual or collective needs or wants.


Source : National Accounts
Source Detail : Gross Domestics Product (GDP)
final consumption expenditure of government
Description

General government final consumption expenditure consists of expenditure, including expenditure whose value must be estimated indirectly, incurred by general government on both individual consumption goods and services and collective consumption services.
 


Source : National Accounts
Source Detail : Gross Domestics Product (GDP)
final consumption expenditure of households
Description

Household final consumption expenditure consists of the expenditure, including expenditure whose value must be estimated indirectly, incurred by resident households on individual consumption goods and services, including those sold at prices that are not economically significant and including consumption goods and services acquired abroad.


Source : National Accounts
Source Detail : Gross Domestics Product (GDP)
final consumption expenditure of NPISHs
Description

Final consumption expenditure of NPISHs consists of the expenditure, including expenditure whose value must be estimated indirectly, incurred by resident NPISHs on individual consumption goods and services and possibly on collective consumption services.


Source : National Accounts
Source Detail : Gross Domestics Product (GDP)
financial auxiliaries
Description

Financial auxiliaries consist of financial corporations that are principally engaged in activities associated with transactions in financial assets and liabilities or with providing the regulatory context for these transactions but in circumstances that do not involve the auxiliary taking ownership of the financial assets and liabilities being transacted.
 


Source : National Accounts
Source Detail : Gross Domestics Product (GDP)
financial intermediaries
Description

Financial intermediaries are units which incur liabilities on their own account on financial markets by borrowing funds which they lend on different terms and conditions to other institutional units.


Source : National Accounts
Source Detail : Gross Domestics Product (GDP)
financial intermediation
Description

Financial intermediation is a productive activity in which an institutional unit incurs liabilities on its own account for the purpose of acquiring financial assets by engaging in financial transactions on the market.


Source : National Accounts
Source Detail : Gross Domestics Product (GDP)
financial intermediation services indirectly measured (fisim)
Description

Financial intermediation services indirectly measured (FISIM) is an indirect measure of the value of financial intermediation services provided but for which financial institutions do not charge explicitly.


Source : National Accounts
Source Detail : Gross Domestics Product (GDP)