Government Finance Statistics - Advanced

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Target Audience:
- Officials whose main responsibility, for at least three years, has been compiling and disseminating GFS and who are regularly faced with complex GFS methodological and compilation issues.
Qualifications:
- Expected educational background: degree in economics, public financial management or statistics or the equivalent.
- Strong recommendation: completion of the online Government Finance Statistics (GFSx) or the Government Finance Statistics fundamental (GFS-F) courses.

Presented by: Statistics Department.
Framework: conceptual framework of government finance statistics (GFS) as presented in the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014), with emphasis on new concepts introduced in GFSM 2014.
Prerequisite knowledge: participants are required to be familiar with the basic GFS framework and classification system.
Emphases and topics:
- Integrated GFS framework and complex cross-cutting issues, including:
- social protection
- government employee pension liabilities
- standardized guarantee schemes
- contracts, leases, licenses
- public-private partnerships
- public sector balance sheets
- Coverage of the public sector, with special attention to borderline and complex cases.
- Internal and intersectoral data consistency.
- Coordination between data-producing agencies.
- Data presentation and communication with users.
Format: lectures and discussions.

Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Explain the new concepts introduced in the GFSM 2014.
- Apply the general principles in GFSM 2014 to complex cross-cutting GFS issues in the integrated framework, such as social protection, government employee pension liabilities, standardized guarantee schemes, contracts, leases, licenses, public-private partnerships, and public sector balance sheets.