{
  "title": "Government Finance Statistics - Advanced",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/hq/2023/gfs-ahq23-02",
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  "summary": "Government Finance Statistics - Advanced Training Program Target Audience Officials whose main responsibility, for at least three years, has been compiling and disseminating GFS and who are regularly faced with complex GFS methodological and compilation issues, such as those described below.",
  "publishDate": "2023-10-27",
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    {
      "heading": "Target audience",
      "content": "- Officials whose main responsibility, for at least three years, has been compiling and disseminating GFS and who are regularly faced with complex GFS methodological and compilation issues.\n- Typical complex issues faced by participants include:\n  - social protection\n  - government employee pension liabilities\n  - standardized guarantee schemes\n  - contracts, leases, licenses\n  - public-private partnerships\n  - public sector balance sheets\n  - coverage of the public sector, including borderline and complex cases\n  - internal and intersectoral data consistency\n  - coordination between data-producing agencies\n  - data presentation and communication with users"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Qualifications",
      "content": "- Expected academic background: a degree in economics, public financial management or statistics or the equivalent.\n- Recommended prior training: completion of the online Government Finance Statistics (GFSx) course is strongly recommended."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- Presented by the Statistics Department.\n- 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.\n- Prerequisite knowledge: participants are required to be familiar with the basic GFS framework and classification system.\n- Emphasis: the integrated GFS framework and application of GFSM 2014 to complex cross-cutting GFS issues.\n- Topics addressed:\n  - social protection\n  - government employee pension liabilities\n  - standardized guarantee schemes\n  - contracts, leases, licenses\n  - public-private partnerships\n  - public sector balance sheets\n  - coverage of the public sector, including borderline and complex cases\n  - internal and intersectoral data consistency\n  - coordination between data-producing agencies\n  - data presentation and communication with users\n- Format: lectures and discussions"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n  - Explain the new concepts introduced in the GFSM 2014.\n  - 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, social protection, government employee pension liabilities, standardized guarantee schemes, contracts, leases, licenses, public-private partnerships, and public sector balance sheets."
    }
  ],
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    "Officials whose main responsibility, for at least three years, has been compiling and disseminating GFS and who are regularly faced with complex GFS methodological and compilation issues.",
    "Typical complex issues faced by participants include:",
    "Expected academic background: a degree in economics, public financial management or statistics or the equivalent.",
    "Recommended prior training: completion of the online Government Finance Statistics (GFSx) course is strongly recommended.",
    "Presented by the Statistics Department.",
    "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 knowledge: participants are required to be familiar with the basic GFS framework and classification system.",
    "Emphasis: the integrated GFS framework and application of GFSM 2014 to complex cross-cutting GFS issues.",
    "Topics addressed:",
    "Format: lectures and discussions",
    "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:"
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