## 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/2026/isa-act26-12)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: CT 26.12
- Location: Dalian, China
- Dates: September 14-18, 2026 (1 week)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Program details
- Training Program title: Institutional Sector Accounts-Advanced (ISA-A)
- Session No.: CT 26.12
- Deadline passed
- Location: Dalian, China
- Date: September 14-18, 2026 (1 week)
- Delivery Method: In-person Training
- Primary Language: English

### Target audience and qualifications
- Target Audience:
  - Compilers of national accounts, including financial accounts statistics, and accounts on a from-whom-to-whom basis, who are employed by national statistical agencies and central banks.
- Qualifications:
  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics, or equivalent experience.

### Course description and scope
- Based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts (SNA).
- Covers advanced methodological and practical issues related to the compilation of the sequence of accounts of the SNA:
  - current accounts,
  - capital accounts,
  - financial account,
  - other changes in volume of assets account,
  - revaluation account,
  - balance sheets.
- Examines linkages between institutional sectors as a basis for establishing from-whom-to-whom accounts.
- Provides skills to compile—or further enhance—country institutional sector accounts and balance sheets.
- Lectures include:
  - thorough review of the methodological framework, concepts, and definitions relating to sectoral institutional sector accounts and balance sheets;
  - examination of potential data sources for the compilation of annual and quarterly accounts;
  - illustration of possible compilation techniques and procedures.
- Provides a forum for participants to share country practices and experiences relating to the compilation of sectoral institutional accounts and balance sheets.

### Course objectives (upon completion participants should be able to)
- Develop from-whom-to-whom financial flow and balance sheet accounts.
- Analyze the institutional sector accounts through a from-whom-to-whom lens in recognition of the counterparties 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 the importance and relevance of compiling institutional sector accounts 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)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ct/2026/isa-act26-12_