Balance Sheet Analysis
Hi, I just have a quick question:
Which ratios would you use to analyze the balance sheet of an investment bank?
P/E P/CF Quick Ratio ROE ROCE Debt Ratio
any other Ratios you would use?
Thanks in advance
Hi, I just have a quick question:
Which ratios would you use to analyze the balance sheet of an investment bank?
P/E P/CF Quick Ratio ROE ROCE Debt Ratio
any other Ratios you would use?
Thanks in advance
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why would you want to analyze the BS of an investment bank??
It depends, because if it is a more advisory focused type of bank, they wouldn't have nothing in their balance sheet, so just look at P&L (advisory fees, operating expenses, profitability ratios, etc)....
Good eye lui, I though he asked what ratios investment banks analyze
The balance sheet I want to analyze would be the last lehman brothers 10-K. So I just wanted to know which ratios you guys think would be the most important ones to look at.
Thx
Hi, I was wondering if anybody knows a good book on financial analysis/ accounting with respect to financial services companies or banks (i.e. the companies they used in their examples are banks). I used the search function but it came up empty. Would help me a lot, thx.
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