## Government Finance Statistics - Advanced

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [Government Finance Statistics - Advanced](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/pt/2025/gfs-apt25-06)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: PT 25.06
- Location: Asuncion, Paraguay
- Dates: November 24-28, 2025 (1 week)
- Delivery method: Blended Training
- Primary language: Spanish

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### Target Audience and Qualifications
- 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.

### Course Description
- 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.

### Course Objectives
- 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.

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## References

- [Blended Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Macroeconomic Management in Resource Rich Countries (MRC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/mrcce26-44)
- [Integrating Basel III Liquidity Standards with ILAAP A Framework for Effective Liquidity Risk Management](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/ce26-31)
- [Big Data for Macroeconomic Statistics (BDMS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2026/bdmsat26-27)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/pt/2025/gfs-apt25-06_