Government Finance Statistics - Advanced

Source details

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.
Qualifications:
- Participants are expected to have a degree in economics, public financial management or statistics or the equivalent.

Focus:
- Conceptual framework of government finance statistics (GFS) as presented in the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014), with emphasis on new concepts introduced in GFSM 2014.
Prerequisite familiarity:
- Participants are expected to be familiar with the basic GFS framework and classification system.
Emphasis on integrated GFS framework and complex cross-cutting issues, including:
- Social protection
- Government employee pension liabilities
- Standardized guarantee schemes
- Contracts
- Leases
- Licenses
- Public-private partnerships
- Public sector balance sheets
Coverage and coordination topics:
- Coverage of the public sector, with special attention to borderline and complex cases
- Internal and intersectoral data consistency
- Coordination between data-producing agencies
- Data presentation and communication with users
Format:
- Lectures and discussions

Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Explain the new concepts introduced in the GFSM 2014.
- 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, contracts, leases, licenses, public-private partnerships, and public sector balance sheets.