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  "title": "Financial Soundness Indicators",
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  "summary": "Financial Soundness Indicators Training Program Target Audience Officials at central banks and supervisory agencies for the financial sector who are involved in the collection, compilation, and analysis of financial soundness indicators (FSIs).",
  "publishDate": "2024-11-08",
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    {
      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience: Officials at central banks and supervisory agencies for the financial sector who are involved in the collection, compilation, and analysis of financial soundness indicators (FSIs).\n- Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics, or equivalent experience."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and scope",
      "content": "- Purpose: Acquaints participants with the fundamentals of compiling and using FSIs in support of macroprudential analysis.\n- Methodology basis: Covers methodological and technical issues in the construction of FSIs as discussed in the 2019 Financial Soundness Indicators Compilation Guide (2019 FSI Guide).\n- Instructional approach:\n  - Interactive approach using hands-on exercises.\n  - Emphasis on practical compilation and application for macro-financial surveillance.\n- Main topical areas:\n  - Preparation of the sectoral financial statements and compilation of FSIs for deposit takers;\n  - Regulatory framework for deposit takers;\n  - Accounting principles and data consolidation for the compilation of FSIs for deposit takers; and\n  - Overview of key points and changes in the 2019 FSI Guide."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Asynchronous component — July 1–15, 2024",
      "content": "- Structure:\n  - Comprises five modules focusing on conceptual issues.\n  - Modules will be made available to participants at least five days before the start of the synchronous classes.\n  - Supplemented with assigned readings and references.\n- Assessment:\n  - Participants will be required to take a pre-course quiz.\n  - Successful completion (i.e., a passing grade) will not be a pre-requisite for participating in the synchronous component.\n  - Quiz results will be used by instructors to determine participant knowledge."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Synchronous component — August 5–9, 2024",
      "content": "- Focus: Practical compilation issues and topics requiring instructor input and feedback.\n- Formats:\n  - Lectures in 30-minute to 45-minute slots, developed from existing lecture presentations and scripts prepared for the online course.\n  - Question and answer sessions.\n  - Practical workshop exercises.\n- Participant engagement:\n  - Presentations followed by brief exercises or question-answer sessions.\n  - Participants invited to present case studies of practical problems or proposed solutions (issues could relate to source data or compilation).\n  - Participants invited to respond to practice questions in discussion forums; workshop will discuss responses and correct answers."
    },
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      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- Upon completion, participants should be able to:\n  - Prepare the sectoral financial statements and compile FSIs for deposit takers in accordance with the methodology of the 2019 FSI Guide.\n  - Prepare or update FSI metadata using concepts acquired on accounting principles and regulatory framework for deposit takers.\n  - Interpret FSIs for macro-financial surveillance."
    }
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    "Purpose: Acquaints participants with the fundamentals of compiling and using FSIs in support of macroprudential analysis.",
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