Institutional Sector Accounts

Source details

Title: Institutional Sector Accounts (ISAx)
Session No.: OL 25.06
Delivery Method: Online Training
Location: Course conducted online
Date: April 3, 2025 - July 10, 2025 (1 week)
Primary Language: English
Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development and the Statistics Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Target Audience:
- Officials globally interested in compiling institutional sector accounts or using the statistics for macroeconomic analysis.
Qualifications:
- Some knowledge of economics and statistics or equivalent experience is helpful.
- Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential.
Pre-requisites:
- Completion of the National Accounts Statistics (NASx) online course is recommended.

Purpose:
- Offers a detailed overview of the compilation of institutional sector accounts based on the System of National Accounts (SNA) framework.
- Equips participants to contribute to informed economic decision-making by enhancing expertise in institutional sector accounts.
Core topics covered:
- The System of National Accounts framework, accounting principles, and key macroeconomic aggregates that underpin the framework.
- Institutional sectors and classification of institutional units to sectors.
- How the SNA tracks production and income across different sectors of the economy.
- Compilation of transactions and positions in both financial and nonfinancial assets and liabilities.
- Classification and recording of changes in assets and liabilities.
- Emphasis on data sources, compilation methods, and measurement issues for non-financial and financial stocks and flows.
- Explanation of the FWTW framework and its analytical uses.

Describe the System of National Accounts framework, the main accounts and their balancing items.
Identify the main institutional sectors and classify institutional units to sectors.
Define the main accounts of the SNA framework, their relevance, and their balancing items / key macroeconomic aggregates.
Outline the stocks and flows of non-financial assets, compilation methods and key data sources.
Outline the main financial instruments and explain the data sources, and compilation methods, and measurement issues to consider in deriving financial stocks and flows in financial assets and liabilities.
Explain the FWTW framework and outline the analytical uses of the framework.