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

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**Canonical URL:** [Financial Programming and Policies, Part 1: Macroeconomic Accounts and Analysis](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2026/fpp-1xol26-145)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: OL 26.145
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: May 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (50 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: Russian
- Status: Apply online by April 1, 2027

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### Program overview
- 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 and access requirements
- 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 and content focus
- 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.

### Course objectives
- 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.

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## References

- [Online Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Apply Now](https://www-ins.imf.org/TAS/signon.aspx?pkey=OL26.145R)
- [Executive Training 2 on Fiscal Policy Considerations (FPA)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fpcce26-16)
- [Institutional Sector Accounts-Advanced - Blended (ISA-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/hq/2027/isa-ahq27-02)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2026/fpp-1xol26-145_