Monetary and Financial Statistics (MFSX)
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Session No.: OL 24.01
Location: Course conducted online
Date: October 15, 2024 - December 17, 2024 (9 weeks) New dates
Delivery Method: Online Training
Primary Language: English
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Central bank officials and officials from financial regulatory agencies responsible for compiling monetary statistics.
Qualifications
Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics or equivalent experience.
Course Description
This course, presented by the Statistics Department, provides participants with an introduction to the compilation of monetary statistics covering the central bank (CB) and other depository corporations (ODCs) in accordance with international standards. Course materials are based on the Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG). The course discusses the principles of residency and sectorization of institutional units, the characteristics and types of financial instruments, valuation principles, and other accounting issues that are relevant to the compilation of monetary statistics. Participants will also become familiar with the defining characteristics of depository corporations (DCs), notably their role as money issuers, and with the main principles on which analysis of monetary and credit aggregates is based.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Describe the scope and use of MFS, including the source data for monetary statistics and the compilation process.
- Understand the foundational building blocks of MFS, including the concepts of residency, economic territory, and institutional sectors, as well as the characteristics of different categories of financial assets and liabilities.
- Explain the accounting rules for the compilation of MFS, including time of recording and valuation principles.
- Gain knowledge about different measures of money supply and other key aggregates, as well as their compilation methods from sectoral balance sheets of financial corporations.
- Get an insight into the structure and components of central bank, other depository corporations, and other financial corporations sectoral balance sheets and link them to the compilation of the analytical surveys.
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