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National Accounts - Volume IIIb - Financial Balance Sheets - Stocks, which record the stocks of financial assets and liabilities by institutional sectors, at the end of the accounting period, and are presented in two tables: Balance sheets for financial assets and liabilities, consolidated and Balance sheets for financial assets and liabilities, non consolidated.

Data are compiled either by Central banks, or Statistical National Institutes. EU data are validated and provided by the European Central Bank whereas non-EU data are provided by national institutions. The sectors for which information is presented are: Total economy (S1) - Non-financial corporations (S11) - Financial corporations (S12) and its sub-sectors (S121 to S125) - General government (S13) and its sub-sectors (1311 to S1314) - Households (S14) - Non-profit institutions serving households (S15) Rest of the world (S2)

National Accounts - Volume IIIa - Financial Accounts - Flows, which record, by type of financial instruments, the financial transactions between institutional sectors, and are presented in two tables: Financial accounts, consolidated and Financial accounts, non-consolidated.

The Financial account, which is the second accumulation account, records financial flows: it indicates the types of financial instruments utilized by the different institutional sectors to acquire financial assets or incur liabilities. Data are compiled either by Central banks, or Statistical National Institutes. EU data are validated and provided by the European Central Bank whereas non-EU data are provided by national institutions.

It presents the balance sheets for non financial assets by institutional sectors, for both produced assets (fixed assets, inventories, valuables) and non-produced assets (tangible and intangible).  It has been prepared from statistics reported to the OECD by Member countries in their answers to annual national accounts questionnaire. This questionnaire is designed to collect internationally comparable data according to the 1993 SNA. Unit of measure used - In national currency expressed in millions. For the Euro area countries, the data in national currency for all years are calculated using the fixed conversion rates against the euro.

The breakdown of transactions and positions by counterpart sector enriches the information as included in the financial accounts and balance sheets by providing insight into the relationships between institutional sectors within an economy as well as between residents and non-residents. For a given financial instrument it is possible to trace the creditor-debtor relations between institutional sectors and with the rest of the world.