## Institutional Sector Accounts-Advanced

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [Institutional Sector Accounts-Advanced](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/jv/2024/isa-ajv24-01)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: JV 24.01
- Location: Vienna, Austria
- Dates: January 15-26, 2024 (2 weeks)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Interpretation language: Russian
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Program logistics and access
- Session No.: JV 24.01
- Deadline passed
- Location: Vienna, Austria
- Date: January 15-26, 2024 (2 weeks)
- Delivery Method: In-person Training
- Primary Language: English
- Interpretation Language: Russian
- Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics; or equivalent experience.

### Target audience
- Officials whose main responsibility is compiling national accounts, including financial accounts statistics and balance of payments statistics (specifically responsible for the sectoral accounts, household distribution accounts and accounts on a from-whom-to-whom basis), who are employed by national statistical agencies and central banks.

### Course scope and methodology
- Presented by Statistics Department and based on the conceptual framework of the 2008 System of National Accounts (2008 SNA).
- Covers advanced methodological and practical issues related to the compilation of the sequence of accounts of the SNA:
  - current and capital accounts
  - financial accounts
  - other changes in volume of assets accounts
  - revaluation accounts
  - balance sheets
  - institutional sector accounts
- Examines linkages between institutional sectors as a basis for establishing from-whom-to-whom accounts.
- Lectures provide a thorough review of methodological framework, concepts, and definitions relating to sectoral institutional sector accounts and balance sheets.
- Reviews potential data sources for the compilation of annual and quarterly ISA and illustrates possible compilation techniques and procedures.
- Includes workshops on practical compilation issues and discussions on emerging financial issues such as fintech and crypto assets.
- Reviews case studies involving new applications of ISA such as household distributions to examine income, consumption and wealth accumulation by various cohorts and intergenerational transfers and pensions.
- Provides a forum for participants to share country practices and experiences relating to the compilation of sectoral institutional accounts and balance sheets.
- Examines the myriad ways in which the ISA supports economic policy.

### Skills and competency objectives (upon completion)
- Develop from-whom-to-whom financial flow and balance sheet accounts.
- Construct household distributional tables.
- Understand the link between financial and non-financial statistics to develop an integrated approach to compiling data on financial economic activities, financial transactions, and balance sheets by institutional sector.
- Analyze the ISA through a from-whom-to-whom lens in recognition of the counterparties that exist as party to transactions within the accounts.
- Apply the acquired knowledge on concepts and methodology to identify data gaps as well as strengths and weaknesses in existing data.
- Explain to policymakers the importance and relevance of compiling ISA and balance sheets for the analysis of economic and financial developments.

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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)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/jv/2024/isa-ajv24-01_