Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)

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Target audience: Officials whose main responsibility has been compiling and disseminating GFS and who are regularly faced with complex GFS methodological and compilation issues.
Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics, public financial management or statistics or the equivalent.

Presented by experts from the International Monetary Fund Statistics Department and METAC.
Focus: the conceptual framework of government finance statistics (GFS) as presented in the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014), with an emphasis on new concepts introduced in GFSM 2014.
Prerequisite familiarity: Participants are required to be familiar with the basic GFS framework and classification system.
Core emphases:
- Complex cross-cutting GFS issues and borderline cases for revenues, expenses, financial transactions and public sector balance sheets.
- Coverage of the public sector, with special attention to complex cases and tools for delineation of the general government sector.
- Internal and intersectoral data consistency.
- Data presentation and communication with users.
Format: lectures, exercises and discussions.

Main objective: enhance knowledge and comprehension of the GFSM framework and its implementation within a national context.
Upon completion participants should be able to:
- Explain the new concepts introduced in the GFSM 2014.
- Apply the general principles in GFSM 2014 to complex cross-cutting GFS issues in the integrated framework, such as:
- social protection,
- government employee pension liabilities,
- standardized guarantee schemes,
- contracts,
- leases,
- licenses,
- public-private partnerships,
- public sector balance sheets.