Speed
AccScript helps reduce repetitive manual work and makes it faster to test, rerun, and compare balancing assumptions.
About AccScript
A scripting environment designed for official national accounts production.
AccScript is a domain-specific scripting environment created to help National Statistical Offices express, validate, execute, and reproduce national accounts balancing workflows.
Its first version focuses on Supply and Use Table balancing, especially for ERETES-style production environments. The objective is not to replace the expertise of national accountants, but to give them a clear, structured, and reproducible way to encode assumptions, test scenarios, and document the logic behind production decisions.
Mission
Modernize national accounts workflows without losing methodological control.
AccScript aims to support statistical production teams by making balancing logic more explicit, faster to test, easier to review, and easier to transmit across teams and generations of national accountants.
Core principles
Built around the realities of official statistics.
Knowledge transfer
Expert reasoning becomes explicit in scripts, making it easier to train new national accountants and preserve institutional knowledge.
Reproducibility
Balancing choices are written, validated, and executed in a repeatable way instead of being hidden in manual operations.
Easy scenario testing
A new assumption can be tested by changing the code and rerunning the workflow, instead of rebuilding the work from scratch.
Auditability
Scripts, validation messages, and outputs help create a clearer production trail for review and quality control.
SNA compliance
The tool is designed around national accounting logic and remains aligned with SNA 2008 and SNA 2025 principles.
Official positioning
AccScript is designed as an extra scripting layer for reproducible national accounts compilation.
It is especially relevant for NSOs using ERETES-style workflows, while the underlying idea can also support countries working with Excel-based processes, internal GUI tools, or other national accounts production systems.