​ The National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) held a workshop on national accounts during the period of 13-16 January 2025 with the participation of a number of government entities in the Sultanate of Oman.

Abdulaziz bin Khamis Al-Sunaidi - Director of the National Accounts Department at NCSI clarified that, the workshop bases on the vision of NCSI on knowledge's enhancing  in the Sultanate of Oman, and strengthening the principle of cooperation and partnership with various government entities , while the workshop  aims to achieve a number of goals, including enhancing economic knowledge through the national accounts system, and via its preparation mechanisms and its most important outputs, as well as simplifying the concepts of national accounts and explaining how to collect and analyzing economic data, which will contribute to strengthen the understanding of government units about the economic and financial patterns in the Sultanate of Oman.

He added that, the workshop also aims to enable concern cadres in the government entities to use national accounts indicators effectively in preparing  economic reports and analyses and to improve the process of making economic and social decisions through utilizing national accounts indicators, which considered the basic pillar for analyzing the economic status and thus enabling the government to make informative decisions in terms of  economic policies, determining public spending priorities and planning various development projects.

He pointed out that, the workshop targeted the enhancement of coordination between NCSI and various government units in order to keep pace with the global economic developments, whereas the participants enabled to quaint with  the latest methods of analyzing national accounts ,that  will contribute to  improve  their skills to keep pace with developments in the field of economic statistics.

The day one of the workshop included an introduction to the 2008 National Accounts System that based on the 2008 National Accounts System Manual, which issued by the United Nations Statistics Division and a number of related international organizations.

The displayed system in the workshop includes a comprehensive conceptual and accounting framework that can be used to create a macroeconomic database suitable for analyzing and evaluating the performance of the national economy.  

The workshop also addressed the basic concepts of national accounts, which includes a set of accounting and statistical principles and foundations that provide a complete view of the national economy within a coordinated and integrated scientific framework.

 The various data sources necessary for preparing national accounts were also addressed by the workshop in accordance with economic activities and institutional sectors.

On the day two of the workshop, the subject of the production account, was also discussed, as it is considered the first account in the current account's series, while it highlights the value added as a balancing item in addition to measuring the production of some economic activities of a special nature.

On its third day, the workshop addressed the subject of the integrated economic accounts, including the input-output tables and the supply-use tables.

 The last day of the workshop has addressed the subject of quarterly national accounts in addition to an introduction to the economic modeling.