## National Accounts Statistics

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [National Accounts Statistics](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2025/nasxol25-192)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: OL 25.192
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: May 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (50 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Training Program and Logistics
- Session No.: OL 25.192
- Location: Course conducted online
- Date: May 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (50 weeks)
- Delivery Method: Online Training
- Primary Language: English
- Target Audience:
  - Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts data.
- Qualifications:
  - Participants should have a degree in economics or statistics, or equivalent experience.

### Course Description
- Presented by the Statistics Department.
- Covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA).
- Course structure:
  - Lectures covering methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA.
  - Workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts.
- Main aim:
  - Train participants in the compilation of annual gross domestic product both at current prices and in volume terms using the production and expenditure approaches, in support of better policy-making and surveillance.
- Core content areas:
  - Overview of the system of national accounts, including the sequence of accounts for transactions and other flows as well as balance sheets, with a focus on the framework of the 2008 SNA.
  - Main concepts: transactions, other economic flows, stocks, institutional units, classifications, and main macroeconomic aggregates measured by the system.
  - Production account topics: definition and measurement of output, intermediate consumption, and value added.
  - Valuation issues and treatment of particular industries.
  - Source data and issues in the compilation of GDP by production and expenditure approaches.
  - Deflators and derivation of volume measures of GDP.
  - Specific issues related to goods and services transactions, including:
    - supply and use framework,
    - inventory valuation adjustment,
    - consumption of fixed capital,
    - non-observed and informal economy,
    - global supply chains,
    - the digital economy.
  - Emphasis on sharing country experiences among participants.

### Course Objectives
- Upon completion, participants should be able to:
  - Understand the main concepts and definitions of the SNA 2008.
  - Describe the compilation of GDP using production, expenditure, and income approaches.
  - Discuss the importance of price and volume measures in the national accounts.
  - Explain the value of high-quality national accounts statistics to policy makers and business decision-makers.

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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/nasxol25-192_