## Balance Sheet Approach (BSA)

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [Balance Sheet Approach (BSA)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/hq/2025/bsahq25-03)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: HQ 25.03
- Location: Washington, D.C., United States
- Dates: February 5-14, 2025 (1 week)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Training program and audience
- Training Program: Balance Sheet Approach
- Session No.: HQ 25.03
- Location: Washington, D.C., United States
- Date: February 5-14, 2025 (1 week) New dates
- Delivery Method: In-person Training
- Primary Language: English
- Deadline passed
- Target Audience:
  - Officials at central banks, ministries of finance and other agencies in charge of compiling monetary and financial statistics, government finance/debt statistics, and external sector statistics
  - Officials overseeing macro-financial analysis

### Qualifications
- Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics, or equivalent experience.

### Course description
- The course is conducted by the Statistics Department.
- Presents a user-friendly tool developed by the Statistics Department to automatically combine monetary, government, and international investment position data reported to the Statistics Department.
- The tool creates a distribution of claims and liabilities on a from-whom-to-whom basis to support macro-financial analysis.
- Use cases emphasized:
  - Focus on overall balance sheet linkages.
  - Identify specific exposures and vulnerabilities, such as excessive reliance on external funding, leverage buildup in the corporate sector, and overreliance on the banking sector for sovereign debt placement.

### Course objectives
Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Use the BSA matrix information for the identification of balance sheet imbalances, exposures, and risks to shocks such as sudden capital outflows or sharp exchange rate depreciation.
- Review and summarize the source data used for preparing the BSA matrix and identify critical data gaps for their respective countries.
- Prepare work plans for addressing these data gaps over the medium-term, in order to provide national policy makers with an analytically useful BSA matrix.

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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/hq/2025/bsahq25-03_