## Cancelled : Virtual : Balance Sheet Approach (BSA)

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**Canonical URL:** [Cancelled : Virtual : Balance Sheet Approach (BSA)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2023/bsaat23-17v)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: AT 23.17V
- Location: Ebene, Mauritius
- Dates: March 20-24, 2023 (1 week)
- Delivery method: Virtual Training
- Primary language: English
- Interpretation language: French

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### Target audience
- Officials at central banks, ministries of finance and other agencies in charge of compiling:
  - monetary and financial statistics,
  - government finance/debt statistics,
  - external sector statistics;
- Officials overseeing macro-financial analysis.

### Course description and purpose
- The course was conducted by the IMF Statistics Department.
- Presents a user-friendly tool developed by the IMF Statistics Department to automatically combine:
  - monetary data,
  - government data,
  - balance of payment data
  reported to the IMF Statistics Department to create a distribution of claims and liabilities on a from-whom-to-whom basis.
- The from-whom-to-whom matrix is intended as a tool for macro-financial analysis to:
  - focus on overall balance sheet linkages,
  - identify specific exposures and vulnerabilities such as:
    - excessive reliance on external funding,
    - leverage buildup in the corporate sector,
    - overreliance on the banking sector for sovereign debt placement.
- The course is an abbreviated version of the longer BSA course traditionally offered by the IMF Statistics Department in-person.

### Course objectives (learning outcomes)
Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Use the BSA matrix information for the identification of balance sheet imbalances, exposures, and risks to shocks such as sudden capital outflows or sharp exchange rate depreciation.
- Summarize the source data used for preparing the BSA matrix and identify critical data gaps for their respective countries.
- Prepare work plans for addressing these data gaps over the medium-term, in order to provide national policy makers with an analytically useful BSA matrix.

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## References

- [Virtual Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2027/cbsat27-10)
- [Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/gfs-ace26-45)
- [Fiscal Sustainability (FS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fsce26-38)
- [Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2026/sacat26-30)
- [Macroeconomic Management in Resource Rich Countries (MRC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/mrcce26-44)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2023/bsaat23-17v_