Current dollars

Current Dollars
Current dollars (also known as "nominal dollars") are dollars in the year they were actually received or paid, unadjusted for price changes.

Current Dollars
A variable like GDP is measured in current dollars if each year's value is measured in prices prevailing during that year.

current dollars
cost of an asset in terms of today's price level. For example, if today the Consumer Price Index is 180, an automobile that cost $20,000 when the CPI base was 100 would cost $36,000 in current dollars.
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Current Dollars
The actual dollar amount paid in sales transactions.

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deflator A statistical tool that converts current dollars into inflation-adjusted dollars,... defunct Out of business. del credere agency An agency, factor or broker who sells products and services for another party....

Implicit GDP deflator - An index number derived by dividing GDP, measured in current dollars, by GDP, measured in constant dollars, and multiplying by 100 .

Constant dollar accounting is an accounting model that converts nonmonetary assets and equities from historical dollars to current dollars using a general price index. This is similar to a currency conversion from old dollars to new dollars.

Investors should look at the "current dollars GDP" for the market value of goods and services, while the "real GDP" uses constant dollars in order to provide a benchmark for previous years' results. Economists often consider a growth rate between 2.

Nominal values The values of variables such as GDP and investment expressed in current dollars, also called money values; measurement in terms of the actual market prices at which goods are sold.

The market value of a nation's output of goods and services during a specific time period. In the US, the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) estimates the US GDP in both current dollars and constant (inflation-adjusted) dollars on a quarterly ...

See also: Constant dollar, Expense, Base year, Current ratio, Balance of payments