Government Finance Statistics (GFSx)
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Bibliographic details
- Session: OL 25.167
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: May 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (50 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: French
- Status: Deadline passed
Training program overview and logistics
- Session No.: OL 25.167
- Location: Course conducted online
- Date: May 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (50 weeks)
- Delivery Method: Online Training
- Primary Language: French
- Organized by: Statistics Department (Government Finance Statistics training program)
Target audience and qualifications
- Target Audience:
- Officials whose main responsibility is compiling and disseminating fiscal statistics.
- Qualifications and technical requirements:
- Expected academic background: degree in economics, public financial management, statistics, or equivalent experience.
- Equipment and software: access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser.
- Skills: basic Microsoft Excel skills are essential.
Course content and conceptual framework
- Curriculum focus:
- Conceptual framework of government finance statistics (GFS) as presented in the IMF’s Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014).
- Practical aspects of data compilation.
- Technical linkages:
- GFSM 2014 is harmonized with the System of National Accounts (SNA 2008).
- Key topics covered:
- Basic concepts and definitions, accounting principles, and detailed classifications.
- Coverage and accounting rules, including accrual accounting.
- Classifications, balance sheets and debt.
- Sources and methods used for compiling GFS.
- Dissemination of GFS and uses in fiscal policymaking and analyses.
Competencies and learning objectives
- Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Explain the GFS integrated framework, understand its advantages and the importance of comprehensive, consistent, and internationally comparable fiscal data for fiscal policy design, monitoring, and evaluation.
- Apply the main macroeconomic principles to identify public sector institutional units and distinguish between general government units and public corporations.
- Apply the basic macroeconomic concepts, principles, and accounting rules to identify, classify, and record transactions, other economic flows, and stock positions.
- Explain how specific government operations and other flows outside the government control impact the fiscal deficit/surplus, debt, and net worth.
- Describe the relationships between the main fiscal aggregates, and between the fiscal aggregates and other macroeconomic indicators.
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