Reference no: EM13177330

Below is a list of domestic output and national income figures for a given year. All figures are in billions. The questions that follow ask you to determine the major national income measures by both the expenditure and income methods. The results you obtain with the different methods should be the same.
Personal consumption expenditures $295
Net foreign factor income 4
Transfer payments 12
Rents 14
Statistical discrepancy 8
Consumption of fixed capital (depreciation) 27
Social security contributions 20
Interest 13
Proprietors' income 33
Net exports 11
Dividends 16
Compensation of employees 273
Taxes on production and imports 18
Undistributed corporate profits 21
Personal taxes 26
Corporate income taxes 19
Corporate profits 56
Government purchases 72
Net private domestic investment 33
Personal saving 20

a.) Using the above data, determine GDP by both the expenditure and the income approaches and then determine NDP.

Instructions: Enter only whole numbers for your answers.

GDP, the expenditure approach: $___ billion

GDP, the income approach: $ ___billion

NDP: $ __ billion

b.) Now determine NI: first, by making the required additions and subtractions from GDP (Method 1), and second, by adding up the types of income and taxes that make up NI (Method 2).

Instructions: Enter only whole numbers for your answers.

Method 1:__ $ billion

Method 2:__ $ billion

c.) Adjust National Income (from part b) as required to obtain PI.

Instructions: Enter only whole numbers for your answers.

Personal Income = $___ billion

d.) Adjust PI (from part c) as required to obtain DI.

Instructions: Enter a whole number for your answer.

Disposable Income = $_____ billion