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Money as a yardstick of standard measure

Money acts as a yardstick of standard measure of value to which all another things can be compared. Illustrate it.

Answer: Money serves as a measure of value in terms of unit of account. The measurement of value was the major complexity of the barter system. Introduction of money has eliminated this difficulty.

This acts as a yardstick of standard measure of value to which all another things can be compared. Money measures the value of whole thing or the prices of all services and goods and can be stated in terms of money. This function of money as well enables the trading firms to ascertain their costs, revenues, gains and losses.

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