Monetary and Financial Statistics
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Bibliographic details
- Session: OL 25.242
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: September 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (33 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: Spanish
- Status: Deadline passed
Target audience and qualifications
- 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.
Course description — scope and content
- Foundation course for compilers and users of monetary and financial statistics (MFS).
- Based on the 2016 Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG).
- Key topics covered:
- Principles and concepts underlying the methodology for collection, compilation, and analytical presentation of monetary statistics.
- Fundamental building blocks: institutional units and sectors, residency and economic territory, and characteristics of financial assets and liabilities.
- Accounting rules for compiling MFS, including time of recording and valuation principles.
- Transformation of accounting records of financial corporations (central bank, other depository corporations and other financial corporations) into sectoral balance sheets.
- Compilation process for money and liquidity aggregates, domestic credit, and other relevant indicators.
- Significance of these aggregates and balance sheets in macroeconomic analysis and policy formulation.
Course objectives — learning outcomes
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.