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  "title": "Monetary and Financial Statistics - Introductory Course (MFS-I)",
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  "summary": "Monetary and Financial Statistics - Introductory Course Training Program Target Audience Central bank officials and officials from financial regulatory agencies responsible for compiling monetary statistics.",
  "publishDate": "2024-05-15",
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    {
      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience: Central bank officials and officials from financial regulatory agencies responsible for compiling monetary statistics.\n- Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics or equivalent experience."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course logistics",
      "content": "- Session No.: CE 24.04\n- Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates\n- Date: January 22, 2024 - February 2, 2024 (2 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Interpretation Language: Arabic\n- Status: Deadline passed"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and content",
      "content": "- Presented by: Statistics Department.\n- Based on: Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG).\n- Coverage:\n  - Introduction to the compilation of monetary statistics covering the central bank (CB) and other depository corporations (ODCs) in accordance with international standards.\n  - Principles of residency and sectorization of institutional units.\n  - Characteristics and types of financial instruments.\n  - Valuation principles and other accounting issues relevant to compiling monetary statistics.\n  - Defining characteristics of depository corporations (DCs), notably their role as money issuers.\n  - Main principles on which analysis of monetary and credit aggregates is based.\n- Methods:\n  - Lectures and exercises focusing on practical aspects of compiling monetary statistics.\n  - Use of financial statements for filling out standardized report forms (SRFs 1 SR and 2 SR).\n  - Derivation of respective surveys for the CB, ODCs, and the consolidated DCs sector.\n  - Participant engagement: participants should be prepared to ask questions and discuss challenges related to MFS compilation practices.\n- Note: The course is an abbreviated version of the longer, introductory MFS course traditionally offered by STA in-person."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- Compile monetary statistics (sectoral balance sheets and surveys) for the CB, ODC, and DC sectors according to the methodology recommended by the MFSMCG using the SRFs 1 SR and 2 SR.\n- Properly classify balance sheet accounts according to residency, counterpart sector, and type of financial instrument, and correctly apply valuation and other accounting principles.\n- Understand how the DCs survey and the main monetary and credit aggregates support the analysis of monetary policy."
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    "Target audience: Central bank officials and officials from financial regulatory agencies responsible for compiling monetary statistics.",
    "Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics or equivalent experience.",
    "Session No.: CE 24.04",
    "Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
    "Date: January 22, 2024 - February 2, 2024 (2 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: In-person Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Interpretation Language: Arabic",
    "Status: Deadline passed",
    "Presented by: Statistics Department.",
    "Based on: Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG).",
    "Coverage:",
    "Methods:",
    "Note: The course is an abbreviated version of the longer, introductory MFS course traditionally offered by STA in-person.",
    "Compile monetary statistics (sectoral balance sheets and surveys) for the CB, ODC, and DC sectors according to the methodology recommended by the MFSMCG using the SRFs 1 SR and 2 SR.",
    "Properly classify balance sheet accounts according to residency, counterpart sector, and type of financial instrument, and correctly apply valuation and other accounting principles.",
    "Understand how the DCs survey and the main monetary and credit aggregates support the analysis of monetary policy."
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