Financial Programming and Policies, Part 1: Macroeconomic Accounts and Analysis (FPP.1x)
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- Session: OL 25.107
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: January 1, 2025 - April 15, 2025 (15 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed
Target audience
- All government officials are welcome to register.
- Particularly relevant for officials in:
- ministries of finance
- ministries of economy and planning
- central banks
- Relevant roles: officials who advise on or help implement macroeconomic and financial policies
- Language availability: The course is offered in English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic.
Qualifications and technical requirements
- Some knowledge of economics is helpful.
- Basic Microsoft Excel skills are required.
- Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential.
Course description
- Explains the basic skills required to conduct financial programming.
- Presents the principal features of the accounts of the four main sectors that comprise the macroeconomy: real, fiscal, external, and monetary.
- Explains how the accounts of the four sectors relate to each other.
- For each sector, presents:
- the accounting framework
- interpretations of variables and indicators from these accounts
- basic analysis of the accounts
Course objectives
Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Calculate economic variables using macroeconomic accounting principles.
- Interpret the accounts of the real, fiscal, external, and monetary sectors that comprise the macroeconomy.
- Describe the accounting and behavioral links between the macroeconomic accounts.
- Analyze economic and financial developments of a case study country using a hands-on, Excel-based framework.