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net inflation rate (FI)

Financial Accounting (FI)

The net increase or decrease in prices over a specifc period, expressed as a percentage of the prices at the start of the period.

Example

The inflation index for January is published in accumulated format as 126420. In June this figure rises to 194520. Rounded off to two decimal places, this gives a net inflation rate of 53.87% (((194520/126 126420)-1)*100).

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