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Bank Profitability: Decoding the Income Statement

Tom Spencer

Firstly, by outlining the major items on a bank’s income statement, and then by discussing key ratios that are commonly used to measure profitability and to estimate the market value for banks. For the sake of simplicity, we will present the information in a consolidated manner. In this 2-part series, we will address these questions.

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Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies

Harvard Business

In the 2016 book The End of Accounting , NYU Stern Professor Baruch Lev claimed that over the last 100 years or so, financial reports have become less useful in capital market decisions. This becomes clear when you look at a company’s two most important financial statements: the balance sheet and the income statement.