Financial Programming and Policies, Part 1: Macroeconomic Accounts & Analysis
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- Session: OL 23.11
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: May 15, 2023 - April 15, 2024 (50 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: Arabic
- Status: Deadline passed
Target audience
- All government officials are welcome to register.
- Particularly relevant for officials in:
- ministries of finance,
- ministries of economy,
- ministries of planning,
- central banks
- Users who advise on or help implement macroeconomic and financial policies.
Qualifications and technical requirements
- Some knowledge of economics is helpful.
- Basic Microsoft Excel skills are helpful.
- Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection is essential.
- Google Chrome web browser is essential.
Course description
- The online course is presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.
- The course explains:
- the basic skills required to conduct financial programming;
- the principal features of the accounts of the four main sectors that comprise the macroeconomy (real, fiscal, external, and monetary);
- how these sectoral accounts relate to each other.
- For each sector the course presents:
- the accounting framework;
- interpretations of variables and indicators from these accounts;
- basic analysis of the accounts.
Course objectives
- Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Calculate economic variables using macroeconomic accounting principles.
- Interpret the accounts of the real, fiscal, external, and monetary sectors that comprise the macroeconomy.
- Describe the accounting and behavioral links between the macroeconomic accounts.
- Analyze economic and financial developments of a case study country using a hands-on, Excel-based framework.
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