Use of balance of payments

Why it would be useful to examine a balance of payments of the country data?

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It would be useful for at least two reasons given below:

a) BOP offers complete information regarding supply and demand of country’s currency. 

b) BOP data is used for evaluation of country’s performance in the international economic competition. Such as, if the country is experiencing some type of perennial BOP deficits, it can signal that industries of the country lack competitiveness.

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