Financial Programming and Policies, Part 1: Macroeconomic Accounts and Analysis

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Title: Financial Programming and Policies, Part 1: Macroeconomic Accounts and Analysis (FPP.1x)
Session No.: OL 26.145
Location: Course conducted online
Date: May 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (50 weeks)
Delivery Method: Online Training
Primary Language: Russian
Offered languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic
Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development

Target Audience:
- All government officials are welcome to register.
- Particularly relevant for officials in ministries of finance, economy, planning and central banks who advise on or help implement macroeconomic and financial policies.
Qualifications:
- Some knowledge of economics is helpful.
- Basic Microsoft Excel skills and access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential.

Course Description:
- Explains the basic skills required to conduct financial programming.
- Presents the principal features of the accounts of the four main sectors that comprise the macroeconomy: real, fiscal, external, and monetary.
- Explains how these sectoral accounts relate to each other.
- For each sector, the course presents the accounting framework, interpretations of variables and indicators from these accounts, and basic analysis of the accounts.
Methods:
- Online instruction with hands-on, Excel-based framework for applied analysis.

Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Calculate economic variables using macroeconomic accounting principles.
- Interpret the accounts of the real, fiscal, external, and monetary sectors that comprise the macroeconomy.
- Describe the accounting and behavioral links between the macroeconomic accounts.
- Analyze economic and financial developments of a case study country using a hands-on, Excel-based framework.