Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Main Objectives of the Balance Sheet Approach -- 3. Key Features of the Framework for Analysis -- Sectorization -- Classification and Valuation of Financial Instruments -- Levels of Complexity -- 4. Data Methodologies and Availability for Balance Sheet Analysis -- Relationship Between the BSA and 1993 SNA Methodologies and Datasets -- Potential Databases for the BSA -- Data Availability -- Data Reliability -- 5. Using Timely and Frequent Balance Sheet Analysis in Surveillance -- 6. Conclusions -- Appendix I. Definitions of Sectors -- Appendix II. Definitions of Financial Instruments -- References -- Boxes -- 1. Recent Country Examples of Balance Sheet Analysis -- 2. Relevant Data Methodologies -- Tables -- 1. Intersectoral Asset and Liability Position Matrix -- 2. South Africa: Net Intersectoral Asset and Liability Matrix -- 3. Sectors and Financial Instrument Categories -- 4. Potential Data Sources for Estimating Intersectoral Asset and Liability Matrix -- 5. Uses of Standardized Report Form Data to Estimate Intersectoral Asset and Liability Positions -- 6. Available Datasets for Balance Sheet Vulnerability Analysis -- 7. Data Reliability by Sector -- 8. Data Reliability by Financial Instrument -- Figures -- 1. Interrelationships of the Balance Sheet and Accumulation Accounts -- 2. Sectorizing Public Entities (General Government versus Public Corporations) -- 3. Common Foreign Currency Balance Sheet Relationships in Partially Dollarized Emerging Market Economies -- 4. South Africa: Sectoral Net Financial Positions, by Currency -- 5. South Africa: Sectoral Net Financial Positions vis-à-vis Nonresidents, by Currency -- 6. South Africa: Other Depository Corporations' Detailed Positions vis-à-vis Nonresidents, by Currency and Instrument.