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  "title": "Monetary and Financial Statistics",
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  "summary": "Back to top Qualifications Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics or equivalent experience.",
  "publishDate": "2024-02-13",
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    {
      "heading": "Training Program Overview",
      "content": "- Training program presented by the Statistics Department.\n- Provides an introduction to the compilation of monetary statistics covering the central bank (CB) and other depository corporations (ODCs) in accordance with international standards.\n- Course materials are based on the Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG).\n- Course format: lectures and exercises focusing on practical compilation aspects, especially use of financial statements to fill out SRFs 1 SR and 2 SR and derivation of respective surveys for the CB, ODCs, and consolidated DCs sector.\n- Course is an abbreviated version of the longer, introductory MFS course traditionally offered by STA in-person."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target Audience and Qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience:\n  - Central bank officials and officials from financial regulatory agencies responsible for compiling monetary statistics.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics or equivalent experience."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Content and Technical Coverage",
      "content": "- Principles and topics covered:\n  - Principles of residency and sectorization of institutional units.\n  - Characteristics and types of financial instruments.\n  - Valuation principles and other accounting issues relevant to monetary statistics compilation.\n  - Defining characteristics of depository corporations (DCs), notably their role as money issuers.\n  - Main principles on which analysis of monetary and credit aggregates is based.\n- Practical emphases:\n  - Use of financial statements for filling out standardized report forms (SRFs 1 SR and 2 SR).\n  - Derivation of surveys for CB, ODCs, and consolidated DCs sector.\n  - Participants expected to ask questions and discuss challenges related to MFS compilation practices."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Objectives",
      "content": "- Upon completion, participants should be able to:\n  - Compile monetary statistics (sectoral balance sheets and surveys) for the CB, ODC, and DC sectors according to the methodology recommended by the MFSMCG using the SRFs 1 SR and 2 SR.\n  - Properly classify balance sheet accounts according to residency, counterpart sector, and type of financial instrument.\n  - Correctly apply valuation and other accounting principles.\n  - Understand how the DCs survey and the main monetary and credit aggregates support the analysis of monetary policy."
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    "Course format: lectures and exercises focusing on practical compilation aspects, especially use of financial statements to fill out SRFs 1 SR and 2 SR and derivation of respective surveys for the CB, ODCs, and consolidated DCs sector.",
    "Course is an abbreviated version of the longer, introductory MFS course traditionally offered by STA in-person.",
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