 Input–output tables therefore are an instrumental part of national accounts.As suggested above, the core input–output table reports only intermediate goods and services that are exchanged among industries.But an array of row vectors, typically aligned at the bottom of this matrix, record non-industrial inputs by industry like payments for labor; indirect business taxes; dividends, interest, and rents; capital consumption allowances (depreciation); other property-type income (like profits); and purchases from foreign suppliers (imports).