## National Accounts Statistics

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [National Accounts Statistics](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2022/nasxol22-110)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: OL 22.110
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: January 1, 2022 - April 15, 2022 (15 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Training program overview
- Session No.: OL 22.110
- Location: Course conducted online
- Date: January 1, 2022 - April 15, 2022 (15 weeks)
- Delivery Method: Online Training
- Primary Language: English
- Status: Deadline passed
- Presented by: Statistics Department

### Target audience and qualifications
- Target Audience: Anyone interested in learning how to compile and disseminate national accounts statistics according to the System of National Accounts and using them for macroeconomic analyses.
- Qualifications: Some knowledge of economics and statistics or equivalent experience is helpful.
- Technical requirements: Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential.

### Course description
- Teaches how to compile timely, high quality national accounts statistics based on the system of national accounts (SNA) framework.
- Introduces the sequence of national accounts, the accounting rules, and the key macroeconomic indicators in the SNA framework.
- Covers gross domestic product (GDP) — the main aggregate of the system — and how to compile consistent and internationally comparable measures of GDP according to the production, income, and expenditure approaches.
- Discusses in detail how the SNA can be used to track an economy's production, consumption, and income and how to estimate volume measures of GDP.

### Course objectives
- Describe the system of national accounts framework, understand the sequence of accounts and their interrelationships, and identify the key macroeconomic indicators
- Explain key national accounts concepts, accounting rules, and methods.
- Define the components of gross domestic product (GDP) from the production approach. Apply the concepts, accounting rules, methods, and data sources necessary to estimate GDP from the production approach.
- Define the components of GDP from the expenditure approach. Apply the concepts, accounting rules, methods, and data sources necessary to estimate GDP from the expenditure approach.
- Define the components of GDP from the income approach. Apply the concepts, accounting rules, methods and data sources necessary to estimate GDP from the income approach.
- Define and explain how to compile volume estimates of GDP from both the production and expenditure perspective.

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## References

- [Online 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/ol/2022/nasxol22-110_