2. Balance-of-payments double-entry bookkeeping (beginner). Show how the following transactions should be recorded in the U.S. balance of payments using a double-entry accounting system:

■ Newmont Mining, a U.S.mining concern, exports $400 million worth of copper to China and is paid in the form of a payment drawn on a U.S. bank.

■ DuPont expands its plastics manufacturing capacity in its Polish plant by investing

$250 million, financed by a dollar bond issue in London.

■ The central bank of the People’s Bank of China purchases $2.5 billion in the foreign exchange market to slow down the appreciation of the renminbi. The dollars are invested in five-year U.S. Treasury bonds.
■ The U.S. government provides food assistance to Sudanese refugees in the amount of $25 million worth of flour.