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Officials at the managerial level whose main responsibility is the compilation, rather than the analysis, of public finance statistics.
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Participants should have a degree in economics or the equivalent.
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This course, presented by the IMF s Statistics Department, focuses on various aspects of preparing and disseminating government finance statistics (GFS). It will assist senior officials from the central, state, and local finance ministries, public accounting offices, statistics office, and central bank, to understand how existing fiscal source data can be utilized effectively. It will provide guidance in improving source data so as to optimize the use of these data in fiscal analysis. The course will also cover data on debt and balance sheets. It will cover the linkages of the GFS with the budget process, chart of accounts, financial statements, and various other data sets, such as the monetary and financial statistics, national accounts, and the balance of payments statistics. It will also deal with data reporting to the IMF. Participants will explore the collaboration among national data compilers, and the presenters will explain good practices with regard to GFS dissemination, including the IMF s special data dissemination standard.
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