SNA ADVISORY EXPERT GROUP (Bangkok, July 2005) Capital injections and superdividends, Reinvested earnings (issue 34) TFHPSA 1/18/2019
Capital injections and superdividends, Reinvested earnings Recording transactions between the government and public corporations is a challenge to the SNA In practice, SNA 1993 recommendations have appeared to be not sufficiently prescriptive In particular, there are no criteria to record capital injections or super-dividends 1/18/2019
Capital injections and superdividends, Reinvested earnings Capital injections and super-dividends are part of one-off transactions, and may be: of very significant amounts subject to manipulations (timing etc.) of large impact on government deficit and debt 1/18/2019
Capital injections and superdividends, Reinvested earnings New manuals have attempted to clarify the notions of income, revenue, equity, and the related flows, for the specific case of government: GFS Manual 2001 ESA95 manual on Government Deficit and Debt (EMGDD, part II, 2002) IPSAS Handbook (2003) 1/18/2019
Capital injections and superdividends, Reinvested earnings The TFHPSA has explored the possibility to refer to Reinvested earnings(D.43), currently reserved in SNA for foreign direct investment (§7.120 and §14.152) An alternative approach will also be proposed, based on GFSM2001 and EMGDD recommendations A paper will be submitted to January 2006 AEG 1/18/2019