摘要：The financial flow accounts,
which were integrated not long
ago into the national income and
expenditure accounts, don¡¯t receive
nearly as much attention as do the
expenditure flows that make up
gross domestic expenditure. But the
financial flows, which finance economic
activity and drive the
changes in the national balance
sheet accounts, are still worth attention
at budget time. Government
budgets are, for good or ill, part of
the nation¡¯s wealth-management
process, part of a continuously
evolving set of policies intended to
bring about a better level and distribution
of wealth in the country as a
whole. When we talk about national
wealth, the relevant data are
recorded in the national and sectoral
balance sheets of the national
balance sheet accounts; and when
we assess changes in wealth, we are
dealing, for the most part, with the
accumulation accounts of the Canadian
system of national accounts ¨C
that is, the financial flow accounts.
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