Assignment 2

Accounting for Financial Institutions

Your assignment is as follows:
a. Choose one bank and collect the financial statements for this bank for 3 consecutive
recent years; not before 2016.
b. Use the collected data to make a comparative analysis using the following
profitability ratios:
1. ROE.
2. ROA.
3. ROE USING THE DUPONT ANALYSIS.
4. The net profit margin.
5. The equity multiplier.
6. The asset turnover.
Required:
In a well-organized report, analyze this data and comment on the results by explaining the
reason for each ratio’s increase or decrease in the case of the bank you are analyzing.
The report should be organized as follows:
1. Cover page.
2. It must contain an introduction about the financial performance in banks.
3. There must be a short literature review containing major and important studies that
conducted profitability analysis on banks (minimum 5 studies).
4. Your ratio analysis part.
5. Your comments on the analysis and final conclusion.
6. Finally, the reference part containing the main references you used in the
assignment.
7. The assignment should range from at least 1,000 words.
8. The articles used in the literature review along with the financial statements should
be attached to the assignment.

Due date of the assignment is Friday 7th of May at 12 pm.