Training Program

Compilers of national accounts, including financial accounts and balance sheet statistics working in national statistics office and central banks; and users interested in understanding key concepts and compilation issues related to ISA.

Some knowledge of economics and statistics or equivalent experience in national accounts statistics is helpful.
 

This online course introduces participants to the theoretical and practical issues of compiling ISA: current accounts, capital account, financial account, other changes in volume of assets account, revaluation account and balance sheets by institutional sectors. The course is based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts (SNA); and provides participants with the necessary skills to compile the full sequence of accounts by institutional sector. 
The course covers the following topics: 

• the methodological framework, concepts, and definitions relating to ISA, including accounting rules, valuation, institutional units and sectors, financial instruments, and non-financial flows and stocks;
• consistency and balancing issues; 
• data sources for compiling the ISA; and
• interlinkages between institutional sectors.