Changing the Treatment of Software Expenditures in the National Accounts

Abstract

Statistics from the national economic accounts play an important role in economic forecasting, both for federal agencies and the private sector. One issue of recent concern has been whether the way those accounts treat businesses' spending on software makes current statistics misleading. This memorandum describes how an alternative treatment of software spending would affect the accounts and provides rough estimates of those effects. The analysis was undertaken as background research in support of the Congressional Budget Office's work on economic forecasting.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA347194

Entities

Organizations

  • Congressional Budget Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Economic Analysis
  • Employment
  • Integrated Systems
  • Investments
  • Money
  • Personal Computers
  • Personnel Management
  • Price Index
  • Software Development
  • Standards
  • Systems Engineering
  • United States

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  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Statistical inference.