## Institutional Sector Accounts-Advanced

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**Canonical URL:** [Institutional Sector Accounts-Advanced](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ct/2024/isa-act24-09)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: CT 24.09
- Location: Beijing, China
- Dates: June 17-28, 2024 (2 weeks)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Interpretation language: Chinese

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### Event logistics and qualifications
- Session No.: CT 24.09 (Institutional Sector Accounts-Advanced).
- Location: Beijing, China.
- Date: June 17-28, 2024 (2 weeks).
- Delivery Method: In-person Training.
- Primary Language: English.
- Interpretation Language: Chinese.
- Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics, or equivalent experience.
- Target Audience: Officials whose main responsibility is compiling national accounts, including financial accounts statistics and balance of payments statistics (specifically responsible for the sectoral accounts, household distribution accounts and accounts on a from-whom-to-whom basis), who are employed by national statistical agencies and central banks.

### Course scope and methodology
- Presented by: Statistics Department.
- Conceptual framework: Based on the 2008 System of National Accounts (2008 SNA).
- Coverage:
  - The sequence of accounts of the SNA: current and capital accounts, financial accounts, other changes in volume of assets accounts, revaluation accounts, and balance sheets by institutional sectors.
  - Linkages between institutional sectors to establish from-whom-to-whom accounts.
  - Potential data sources for the compilation of annual and quarterly ISA.
  - Compilation techniques and procedures for sectoral institutional sector accounts and balance sheets.
  - Emerging financial issues such as fintech and crypto assets.
  - Case studies and new applications of ISA, including household distributions to examine income, consumption and wealth accumulation by various cohorts and intergenerational transfers and pensions.
  - The role of ISA in supporting economic policy.

### Instructional format and participant engagement
- Lectures: Thorough review of methodological framework, concepts, and definitions relating to sectoral institutional sector accounts and balance sheets.
- Workshops: Practical compilation sessions addressing compilation issues.
- Discussions: Emerging financial issues and country practices.
- Peer exchange: Forum for participants to share country practices and experiences relating to compilation of sectoral institutional accounts and balance sheets.

### Course objectives and expected competencies
- Develop from-whom-to-whom financial flow and balance sheet accounts.
- Construct household distributional tables.
- Understand the link between financial and non-financial statistics to develop an integrated approach to compiling data on financial economic activities, financial transactions, and balance sheets by institutional sector.
- Analyze the ISA through a from-whom-to-whom lens in recognition of the counterparties that exist as party to transactions within the accounts.
- Apply the acquired knowledge on concepts and methodology to identify data gaps as well as strengths and weaknesses in existing data.
- Explain to policymakers the importance and relevance of compiling ISA and balance sheets for the analysis of economic and financial developments.

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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/ct/2024/isa-act24-09_