unit of account
noun[C]
ukuspluralunits of accountACCOUNTING,FINANCE,ECONOMICS
themoneyused inaccounts, etc. for aparticularpurpose:
Somecurrenciestendto be used more thanothersasunitsofaccount, the USdollarand theeuro, forexample.
Examplesofunit of account
unit of account
They also performed the function of money as aunitofaccount.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A gold standard is a monetary system in which the standard economicunitofaccountis based on a fixed quantity of gold.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.After that time the "hyperpyron nomisma" continued as aunitofaccount, but it was no longer struck in gold.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The basicunitofaccountis an hour of service to an elderly person.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Unit of measure andunitofaccountare sometimes treated as synonyms in financial accounting and economics.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In economics, a standardunitofaccountis used for statistical purposes to describe economic activity.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is the monetaryunitofaccountof the principal economic environment in which an economic entity operates.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Inflation destroys the assumption that the real value of theunitofaccountis stable which is the basis of classic accountancy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Unlike money, credit itself can not act as aunitofaccount.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, in modern societies credit is usually denominated by aunitofaccount.
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