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Stocks and flows
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The inputs such as cloth and labor can be measured as flow variables. The factory is a stock variable, since it is owned or bought. Even if the firm had leased the factory, it continues to be a stock, since it is owned by someone else other than the firm. When the capital stock is owned by the firm, there is
Stock: Stock indicates a quantity of variable at a particular point of time.
Flow: Flow variable shows a change in variable over a period of time.
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