Final Uses

Definition

Final Uses. The consumption of the goods and services that are produced and distributed in the economy. In the I-O accounts, final-use transactions consist of the transactions that make up the final-expenditure components of GDP: Personal consumption expenditures; private fixed investment; change in private inventories; exports of goods and services; imports of goods and services; and Federal, state, and local government consumption expenditures and gross investment (including investment by government enterprises).