Institutional Sector Accounts-Advanced - Blended

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Target audience:
- Compilers of national accounts, including financial accounts statistics, and accounts on a from-whom-to-whom basis, who are employed by national statistical agencies and central banks.
Qualifications:
- Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics, or equivalent experience.

The course is based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts (SNA).
Coverage:
- Advanced methodological and practical issues related to the compilation of the sequence of accounts of the SNA: current accounts, capital accounts, financial account, other changes in volume of assets account, revaluation account, and balance sheets by institutional sectors.
- Linkages between institutional sectors as a basis for establishing from-whom-to-whom accounts.
- Review of the methodological framework, concepts, and definitions relating to sectoral institutional sector accounts and balance sheets.
- Examination of potential data sources for the compilation of annual and quarterly accounts.
- Illustration of possible compilation techniques and procedures.
- Forum for participants to share country practices and experiences relating to the compilation of sectoral institutional accounts and balance sheets.
Purpose:
- To provide participants with the necessary skills to compile—or further enhance—their country's institutional sector accounts and balance sheets.

Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Develop from-whom-to-whom financial flow and balance sheet accounts.
- Analyze institutional sector accounts through a from-whom-to-whom lens in recognition of the counterparties to transactions within the accounts.
- Apply acquired knowledge on concepts and methodology to identify data gaps as well as strengths and weaknesses in existing data.
- Explain the importance and relevance of compiling institutional sector accounts and balance sheets for the analysis of economic and financial developments.