Virtual: Financial Soundness Indicators
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- Virtual: Financial Soundness Indicators
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Bibliographic details
- Session: AT 26.05V
- Location: Ebene, Mauritius
- Dates: February 9-13, 2026 (1 week)
- Delivery method: Virtual Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed
Training program and target audience
- Training Program: Statistics Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF).
- Target Audience: Officials at central banks and supervisory agencies of the financial sector involved in the collection, compilation, and analysis of financial soundness indicators (FSIs).
- Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics, or equivalent experience.
Course description
- Purpose: Acquaints participants with the fundamentals of compiling and using FSIs in support of macroprudential analysis.
- Methodological basis: Covers methodological and technical issues in the construction of FSIs, as discussed in the 2019 Financial Soundness Indicators Compilation Guide (2019 FSI Guide).
- Pedagogy: Interactive approach using hands-on exercises.
- Main topics:
- a. Preparation of the sectoral financial statements and compilation of FSIs for deposit takers, other financial corporations (OFCs), and nonfinancial corporations (NFCs).
- b. Regulatory framework for deposit takers.
- c. Accounting principles and data consolidation for the compilation of FSIs for deposit takers.
- d. Metadata reporting.
- e. Overview of FSIs for Household sector and Real Estate markets.
Course objectives
- Prepare the sectoral financial statements and compile FSIs for deposit takers in accordance with the methodology of the 2019 FSI Guide.
- Prepare and update FSI metadata using the concepts acquired on accounting principles and regulatory framework for deposit takers.
- Source data and prepare the sectoral financial statements to compile FSIs for OFCs, NFCs, and Households.
- Interpret FSIs for macro-financial surveillance.
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