Talk:Perpetual inventory

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theft, breakage are things that would cause the pereptual to be overstated not understated

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Sources to add, related to in industry productivity accounting and macroeconomics
The PIM (perpetual inventory method) is used in economic statistics -- industry productivity accounting and macroeconomics. The sources below show that the term dates back to at least 1952 and possibly to Kuznets in the 1940s.
 * Andrews, W.H. 1952. The Journal of Finance, 7(3), 503-505. doi:10.2307/2976270 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41843142
 * Brownlie, A.D. 1964. On Measuring Capital. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 46(1), 104-105. doi:10.2307/1924083 ; www.jstor.org/stable/1924083
 * Kendrick, John W. 1966. Conceptual and Data Problems of Wealth Estimates in an Economic Accounting Framework. Revue De L'Institut International De Statistique / Review of the International Statistical Institute, 34(3), 360-368. doi:10.2307/1401255 ; www.jstor.org/stable/1401255
 * -- econterms (talk) 15:51, 11 September 2017 (UTC)