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Purchases

Purchases include the value of all goods and services bought for resale and use in trade during the financial year, except for capital commodities.

Purchases comprise
- materials used for goods sold as such (raw materials, intermediate goods, product components)
- supplementary materials connected to production (such as packaging, maintenance and repair materials, office supplies)
- water and energy
- unactivated purchases of small tools and equipment
- services (e.g. legal and accounting services, insurance premiums, advertising costs and patent and licence fees if not activated).

Purchases do not include expenses entered in the financial statement as financial expenses or other than actual operating costs.



Validity of the definition

  • Valid

Source organisation

  • Tilastokeskus

Related concepts

Purchases of bonds classified as investments (including other bonds such as debentures, corporate loans, convertible bonds and bonds with equity warrant).

MFI (monetary financial institution) purchases of bonds classified as debt securities. Insurance corporation purchases of bonds classified as investments (including reserves for equity-linked policies).

Cf. also New credits.



Statistics using the definition

Validity of the definition

  • Valid

Source organisation

  • Tilastokeskus

Related concepts


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