## Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/gfs-ace26-45)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: CE 26.45
- Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait
- Dates: December 13-17, 2026 (1 week)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Interpretation language: Arabic
- Status: Apply online by October 1, 2026 Deadline extended

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### Target audience and qualifications
- 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.

### Course description
- 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.

### Course objectives
- 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.

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## References

- [In-person Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Apply Now](https://www-ins.imf.org/TAS/signon.aspx?pkey=CE26.45E)
- [Integrating Basel III Liquidity Standards with ILAAP A Framework for Effective Liquidity Risk Management](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/ce26-31)
- [Big Data for Macroeconomic Statistics (BDMS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2026/bdmsat26-27)
- [Financial Development and Financial Inclusion (FDFI)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2026/fdfiat26-24)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/gfs-ace26-45_