## Financial Soundness Indicators (FSI)

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [Financial Soundness Indicators (FSI)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/courses/fsi)

## Other formats

- [Markdown version](/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/courses/fsi/index.md)
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## Bibliographic details
- Published: July 29, 2025

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### Course overview
- Provides participants with an in-depth understanding of compilation and analysis of FSIs.
- Emphasizes that researchers, analysts, and policymakers worldwide utilize these indicators to assess the health of financial systems.
- States that the IMF uses FSIs as a key input in financial sector assessment and macro-financial surveillance.
- Covers methodological and practical issues in the compilation of FSIs, as discussed in the 2019 Financial Soundness Indicators Compilation Guide.
- Employs an interactive approach using hands-on exercises.

### Core curriculum topics
- Preparation of the sectoral financial statements and compilation of FSIs for:
  - deposit-takers,
  - other financial corporations (OFCs),
  - households,
  - nonfinancial corporations (NFCs),
  - real estate markets.
- Regulatory framework for deposit-takers.
- Accounting principles and consolidation basis for the compilation of FSIs for deposit-takers.
- Metadata compilation and reporting.

### Target audience and qualifications
- Target audience:
  - Officials from central banks and supervisory agencies of the financial sector involved in the compilation and analysis of financial soundness indicators (FSIs).
- Qualifications:
  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics, statistics, accounting or an equivalent degree.

### Course learning objectives
Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Prepare the sectoral financial statements to compile FSIs for deposit-takers.
- Identify the source data to compile FSIs for OFCs, NFCs, households, and real estate markets.
- Apply various consolidation bases for FSIs compilation.
- Interpret the analytical value of core and additional FSIs.
- Evaluate the use of FSIs in financial sector surveillance and macro-financial analysis.
- Prepare and interpret FSIs metadata.

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## References

- [Fiscal Policy Analysis (FPA)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/hq/2026/fpahq26-11)
- [Taxation and Domestic Revenue Mobilization](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/tdrmce26-34)
- [Integrating Basel III Liquidity Standards with ILAAP A Framework for Effective Liquidity Risk Management](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/ce26-31)
- [Financial Programming and Policies (FPP)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fppce26-41)
- [Producer, Export, and Import Price Statistics](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/jv/2026/peijv26-36)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/courses/fsi_