## Monetary and Financial Statistics

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [Monetary and Financial Statistics](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2025/mfsxol25-118)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: OL 25.118
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: January 1, 2025 - April 15, 2025 (15 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Target audience and qualifications
- Target Audience: Central bank officials, officials from financial regulatory agencies responsible for compiling monetary statistics as well as users interested in understanding key conceptual framework and compilation process.
- Qualifications: Some knowledge of economics or statistics or equivalent experience is helpful.

### Course description
- Presented by the Statistics Department.
- Provides an introduction to the compilation of monetary statistics covering the central bank (CB), other depository corporations (ODCs) and other financial corporations (OFCs) in accordance with international statistical standards.
- Course materials are based on the 2016 Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG).
- Discusses:
  - Principles of residency and sectoring of institutional units.
  - Characteristics and types of financial instruments.
  - Valuation principles and other accounting issues relevant to the compilation of monetary statistics.
- Familiarizes participants with:
  - Defining characteristics of depository corporations (DCs), notably their role as money issuers.
  - Main principles on which analysis of monetary and credit aggregates is based.
  - The OFCs sector and its relevance for compiling a broader and often more reliable measure of the liquidity available in an economy and financing extended to the nonfinancial sectors and nonresidents by the financial corporations.

### Course objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Describe the scope and use of MFS, including the source data for monetary statistics and the compilation process.
- Explain the conceptual framework underlying MFS compilation, focusing on sectoring, classification and valuation of financial instruments, as well as accounting principles.
- Understand the different measures of money supply and other key aggregates, as well as their compilation methods from sectoral balance sheets of financial corporations.
- Become familiar with the structure and components of central bank, other depository corporations, and other financial corporations sectoral balance sheets and link them to the compilation of the analytical surveys.

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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)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2025/mfsxol25-118_