## Government Finance Statistics - Advanced

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [Government Finance Statistics - Advanced](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/hq/2026/gfs-ahq26-07)

## Other formats

- [Markdown version](/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/hq/2026/gfs-ahq26-07/index.md)
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## Bibliographic details
- Session: HQ 26.07
- Location: Washington, D.C., United States
- Dates: October 26, 2026 - November 6, 2026 (2 weeks)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: French
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Course overview and logistics
- Session No.: HQ 26.07
- Location: Washington, D.C., United States
- Date: October 26, 2026 - November 6, 2026 (2 weeks)
- Delivery Method: In-person Training
- Primary Language: French
- Deadline passed

### Target audience and qualifications
- 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.

### Course description — substantive coverage
- 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

### Course objectives — competencies on completion
- 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.

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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/2026/gfs-ahq26-07_