## Monetary and Financial Statistics

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [Monetary and Financial Statistics](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2025/mfsxol25-242)

## Other formats

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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

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### 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.

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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)
- [Macroeconomic Management in Resource Rich Countries (MRC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/mrcce26-44)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2025/mfsxol25-242_