Monetary and Financial Statistics - Compilation Guide

The Monetary and Financial Statistics: Compilation Guide (the Guide)—an accompaniment to the Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual (the Manual)—is a significant component of the IMF work on enhancing the quality, availability, and analytical usefulness of financial-sector data in both in-country and international contexts. The Guide focuses on the cross-country harmonization of source data and methodology for the compilation and presentation of the statistics. It also describes the unified framework for countries’ reporting of monetary data to the IMF. In 2004, the IMF introduced the Standardized Report Forms (SRFs), which are based on the methodology in the Manual and are designed for countries’ reporting of balance-sheet data for their depository corporations, insurance corporations, pension funds, and other
institutional types of financial corporations.