Balance of payments

A. is defined as the statistical record of a country's international transactions over a certain period of time presented in the form of a double-entry bookkeeping.

B. provides detailed information concerning the demand and supply of a country's currency.

C. can be used to evaluate the performance of a country in international economic competition.

D. all of the options

Option (D) is correct.

Explanation:

Balance of payment is defined as the difference between the total value of payments to the rest of the world and total value of receipts from the rest of the world over a period of time.

Balance of payments includes all the transactions take place between a nation with the rest of world.

Balance of trade is a sub-part of balance of payments which includes all the transactions of goods and services between the nations.

A country has either a negative balance of payment, balanced balance of payment or positive balance of payment.