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Q.N.

1 Saving and investment establish relationship between them and narrate with live
examples?
Generally, Savings is income not spent, or deferred consumption.
In Economics, Savings are defined as Income minus consumption.
According to Keynesian economics, the amount left over when the cost of a person's
consumer expenditure is subtracted from the amount of disposable income that he or she
earns in a given period of time.

Generally, investment is the application of money for earning more money. Investment
also means savings or savings made through delayed consumption. According to
economics, investment is the utilization of resources in order to increase income or
production output in the future.
Investment definition according to finance, the practice of investment refers to the
buying of a financial product or any valued item with an anticipation that positive returns
will be received in the future.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT

The amount of savings a country has is fundamental to finance new investments that the
country may wish to undertake. Savings are also important as they benefit the economy and
in the long term, help to give a higher level of life.
One part of a country's income goes to consumption and another part goes to savings. There
is a direct relationship between savings and investment.
In every economy:
Savings = Investment
Therefore, for a company to invest more, it should consume less and save a greater part of
its income.
We are going to try and explain why there is this equality (Savings = Investment) (Let's see
if we can!).
To simplify the explanation, lets suppose that we are talking about a country that doesn't
have foreign trade (they don't export and don't import), their GDP is defined by:
Y=C+I+G

Where: Y (GDP), C (Consumption), I (Investment), G (Government Spending).


If we clear investment, we have:
I = Y - C - G (Equation 1)
On the other hand, the income generated will be destined to a part of the savings (S) and
another part to the consumption (both private "C", as public"):
Y=S+C+G
If we clear the savings (S) we have:
S = Y - C - G (Equation 2)
Now relating equation 1 with equation 2 we have:
I=S
Then, we have demonstrated (yes we have demonstrated) that saving is the same as
investment.
Live Examples:
Examples of Saving and Investment
The Facts

Saving or Investment?

The owner of Miller's Pizzeria has after tax


income of $50,000 this year. He spends
$40,000 on consumption, and decides to
save the rest by investing in a $10,000
certificate of deposit at the 87thNational
Bank. This brings his accumulated deposits
to $50,000.
The owner decides to purchase a new
$10,000 pizza oven, paying for it by taking
$10,000 out of the savings account at the
87th National Bank.
In the next year, the owner decides to
purchase a new, high tech oven for $25,000,
paying for it by leaving $5,000 in earnings in
the business and taking an additional
$20,000 loan from the Bank.

$ 10,000 in saving. The word invest is


misused. The rest of the deposits
constitute savings, or cumulative saving.

Investment.

Both. The new oven is an investment of


$25,000, and he saved $5,000 this year by
not taking part of the money out of the
business for spending.

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