capital
Let an agent explain capital by economic, accounting and theoretical senses, cite sources and theories with attribution, and avoid personal investment advice.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain capital by economic, accounting and theoretical senses, cite sources and theories with attribution, and avoid personal investment advice.
In economics, resources used to produce goods and services, including physical capital such as machinery and buildings, financial capital, and by extension human, intellectual and social capital; in accounting, capital is the owners equity in a business. Capital cities and capital letters are different senses.
What it is for: Economic analysis, accounting and business finance.
It can be distinguish kinds of capital; explain capital in accounts; summarise theories of capital with attribution; separate other senses of capital.
Distinguishing features
Used in production
Accumulated over time
Measured in several ways
Central to economic theories
What it looks like
Not a single object; machinery, buildings, money, skills and balance sheet figures.
How it is recognised
Capital stock and investment data
Equity on a balance sheet
A capital city is a place
Related models
is a kind of - category
is a factor of - role
is related to - flow
is confused with - another sense
In practice
Families and kinds
physical capital
financial capital
human capital
intellectual and social capital
equity capital in accounting
Standards and regulation
System of National Accounts
IFRS on equity
Bank capital requirements (Basel III)
Failure modes and hazards
Mixing economic and accounting senses
Presenting contested theories as settled
Agents giving investment advice
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.capital-location
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Kinds Types of capital.
Kinds differ.
Type
Which capital.
Type
Capital type.
- Is physical, financial, human or another kind of capital meant? definition
- How is it measured? measurement
Data
Statistics.
Data
Capital statistics.
- What do national accounts show about capital stock or investment here? provenance
- For which year? provenance
Accounting Equity.
Accounts define capital.
Equity
Owners equity.
Equity
Equity.
- How is capital shown on this balance sheet? definition
- What is working capital? definition
Banks
Capital requirements.
Banks
Bank capital.
- What capital requirements apply to banks under Basel rules? provenance
- How are ratios calculated? measurement
Theory Economic thought.
Theories are debated.
Schools
Views.
Schools
Theories of capital.
- How do classical, Marxian and neoclassical economists describe capital? provenance
- Are views attributed rather than asserted? boundary
Advice
Limits.
Advice
Advice limits.
- Is the user asking how to invest their own capital? boundary
- How should the agent point to regulated advice? action
Senses Disambiguation.
Capital has many senses.
City
Capital city.
City
Capital city sense.
- Is a capital city meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Other
Letters and columns.
Other
Other senses.
- Is a capital letter or the top of a column meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should kinds of capital be separate entries?
- How should national accounts data be linked?
- How should other senses be split off?