It refers to the external assets of the Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador that may be used to directly finance balance of payments imbalances, to indirectly regulate the magnitude of these imbalances by means of intervention on the exchange market, to maintain confidence in the domestic currency and the economy, and for other purposes. The definition given above conforms to the stipulations of the Fifth Edition of the Balance of Payments Manual, except for the valuation of monetary gold, the rate of which has been fixed since 1989.
Most resources are freely available and usable or convertible at no more than three days.
Assets denominated in foreign currencies other than dollars are valued at international market exchange rates. To express them in dollars, they are converted into colones at the prevailing daily exchange rate and divided by the average exchange rate referred to above. Analytical balance sheet of the Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador. V. Compilation Practices Data are taken directly from the balance sheet with no adjustment of any kind.