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  "title": "Sectoral Accounts and Balance Sheets (PSBS)",
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  "summary": "Sectoral Accounts and Balance Sheets Training Program Target Audience The workshop is intended for officials employed in national statistical agencies and central banks, who are integrally involved in the compilation of national accounts and financial accounts statistics.",
  "publishDate": "2023-03-11",
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      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience:\n  - Officials employed in national statistical agencies and central banks who are integrally involved in the compilation of national accounts and financial accounts statistics.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants are expected to possess a degree in economics or statistics; or equivalent experience."
    },
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      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- The one-week course covers theoretical and practical issues related to the compilation of:\n  - sectoral accounts (current and capital accounts, financial accounts, other changes in volume of assets accounts, and revaluation accounts)\n  - balance sheets according to institutional sectors.\n- The aim of the course is to provide participants with the necessary skills to compile the sectoral accounts and the balance sheets.\n- Course structure:\n  - Lectures covering conceptual and methodological issues.\n  - Exercises that require application of concepts and that highlight practical compilation issues.\n- Lecture content highlights:\n  - Thorough review of the methodological framework, concepts, and definitions relating to sectoral accounts and balance sheets, including:\n    - accounting rules\n    - valuation\n    - institutional units and sectors\n    - residency\n  - Outline of potential data sources for compilation.\n  - Illustration of recommended compilation techniques and procedures."
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      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of the workshop, participants should be able to:\n- Describe fundamental aspects of sectoral accounts that is highly aligned with the international standard.\n- Describe the relationship between statistical units and institutional sectors.\n- Know the linkages between the sequence of accounts and the main economic statistics calculated for each account.\n- Understand the methodology and data sources required to compile sectoral accounts.\n- Apply the acquired knowledge on concepts and methodology to identify data gaps as well as strengths and weaknesses in existing data.\n- Explain to policymakers the importance and relevance of compiling sectoral accounts and balance sheets for the analysis of macro-prudential developments."
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    "Describe fundamental aspects of sectoral accounts that is highly aligned with the international standard.",
    "Describe the relationship between statistical units and institutional sectors.",
    "Know the linkages between the sequence of accounts and the main economic statistics calculated for each account.",
    "Understand the methodology and data sources required to compile sectoral accounts.",
    "Apply the acquired knowledge on concepts and methodology to identify data gaps as well as strengths and weaknesses in existing data.",
    "Explain to policymakers the importance and relevance of compiling sectoral accounts and balance sheets for the analysis of macro-prudential developments."
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