Download or read book Intangible assets and transactions within multinational enterprises: implications for national economic accounts written by World Intellectual Property Organization and published by WIPO. This book was released on 2017 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transactions involving intangible assets within multinational enterprises impose challenges for national economic accountants. In light of the challenges, recent research at the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis aims to identify areas for improving the treatment of multinational enterprises in national economic accounts. This paper summarizes the work and demonstrates implications for gross domestic product – the most widely cited measure in national economic accounts – of the United States.