Monetary and Financial Statistics

Source details

Session No.: OL 25.241
Location: Course conducted online
Date: September 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (33 weeks)
Delivery Method: Online Training
Primary Language: French
Deadline passed
Target Audience:
- Officials from central banks and/or financial regulatory institutions involved or interested in understanding MFS compilation and analysis.
Qualifications:
- Some knowledge of economics and statistics or equivalent experience is helpful.

Serves as a foundation for those interested in MFS compilation or analysis, for both compilers and users.
Discusses the principles and concepts underlying the methodology for the collection, compilation, and analytical presentation of monetary statistics as set out in the 2016 Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG).
Provides an introduction to the framework for compiling monetary statistics, covering fundamental building blocks:
- Key concepts of institutional units and sectors
- Residency and economic territory
- Characteristics of financial assets and liabilities
Explains the accounting rules for compiling MFS, including:
- Time of recording
- Valuation principles
Describes how information extracted from the accounting records of financial corporations (central bank, other depository corporations and other financial corporations) are transformed into sectoral balance sheets using the established framework, which are the cornerstone for analytical presentations of monetary statistics.
Covers the compilation process for:
- Money and liquidity aggregates
- Domestic credit
- Other relevant indicators
Explains the significance of these aggregates and indicators in macroeconomic analysis and policy formulation.

Once participants have completed the course, they should be able to understand:

The scope and use of MFS, including the source data for monetary statistics and the compilation process.
The foundational building blocks of MFS, including the concepts of residency, economic territory, and institutional sectors, as well as the characteristics of different categories of financial assets and liabilities.
The accounting rules for the compilation of MFS, including time of recording and valuation principles.
The different measures of money supply and other key aggregates, as well as their compilation methods from sectoral balance sheets of financial corporations.
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.