## Financial Soundness Indicators

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [Financial Soundness Indicators](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2025/fsice25-02)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: CE 25.02
- Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Dates: January 6-10, 2025 (1 week)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Interpretation language: Arabic
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Course overview and logistics
- Event: Financial Soundness Indicators (FSI) training program presented by the Statistics Department.
- Session No.: CE 25.02.
- Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
- Date: January 6-10, 2025 (1 week).
- Delivery Method: In-person Training.
- Primary Language: English.
- Interpretation Language: Arabic.
- Status: Deadline passed.
- 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 content and methodology
- Purpose: Acquaint 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).
- Instructional approach: Interactive, using hands-on exercises.
- Main topics addressed:
  - Preparation of the sectoral financial statements and compilation of FSIs for deposit takers, other financial corporations (OFCs), and nonfinancial corporations (NFCs).
  - Regulatory framework for deposit takers.
  - Accounting principles and data consolidation for the compilation of FSIs for deposit takers.
  - Metadata reporting.
  - Overview of FSIs for Household sector and Real Estate markets.

### Learning objectives and participant outcomes
- Upon completion, participants should be able to:
  - 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 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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## References

- [In-person 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/ce/2025/fsice25-02_