capital account
a business account stating the owner's or shareholder's interest in the assets.
capital accounts, Accounting. accounts showing the net worth in a business enterprise.
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How to use capital account in a sentence
And our capital account is certainly swelling around that time, as the US runs a persistent, ever-larger trade deficit.
The Iraq War Caused Many Bad Things, But Did It Really Cause the Financial Crisis? | Megan McArdle | April 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMacdowell wrote you a capital account of our expedition to Meerun-ke-Serai, which you will get before this reaches you.
Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India | W. S. R. HodsonIn railway bookkeeping only an arbitrary line can ever be drawn between capital account and operating expenses.
Monopolies and the People | Charles Whiting BakerBut if this were so, the money would not be wanted to balance a Budget, but on railway capital account.
International Finance | Hartley WithersThe Countess D'Aulnois gives a capital account of the state of things in this respect in her time (circ 1679).
An Architect's Note-book in Spain | Matthew Digby Wyatt
The heavy amounts required to provide terminals must also be charged to capital account.
The Country's Need of Greater Railway Facilities and Terminals | James Jerome Hill
British Dictionary definitions for capital account
economics that part of a balance of payments composed of movements of capital and international loans and grants: Compare current account (def. 2)
accounting a financial statement showing the net value of a company at a specified date. It is defined as total assets minus total liabilities and represents ownership interests
US an account of fixed assets
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