The Centre organised a training course on “Quarterly National Accounts” at Agency of Statistics of the Republic of Kazakhstan on 31 October-2 November 2011. The course was provided by Mr. Buyung Airlangga, an expert at the Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS), Republic of Indonesia. The training course on “Quarterly National Accounts” mainly covered the following subjects:

• Introduction, Circular flow, Classification, Data Review
• Review of data availability
• Current Price of Production Approach
• Constant Price of Production Approach
• Household Consumption
• Government Consumption
• Gross Fixed Capital Formation
• Exports and Imports
• Inventory and Statistical Discrepancy
• Reconciliation between production and expenditure approach
• Benchmarking into yearly GDP