Training Catalog Course Details

This course offers, in the first three days, an opportunity to learn the concepts, principles, sources, methods, accounting rules, and general framework used to compile GFS and PSDS. The fundamental features of GFS and PSDS: institutional units, sectorization, basis of reporting, transactions, other economic flows, accounts (revenue, expense, expenditure, assets, liabilities), statements, balance sheets, etc. will be covered. The course is taught using international standards presented in the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014) and the Public Sector Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users 2011 (PSDS Guide). Participants, especially GFS compilers, will be asked to come to the course prepared to discuss the current status of GFS/PSDS development, their views on capacity development requirements in their country. Articulating a needs assessment for each participating country will be a primary task on the fourth day of the course. To the extent possible, the course will feature applied components that are based on the South Asia experience.