This study reports the results of a longitudinal study of the association between selected bank funds measures and relative profitability, with emphasis on high-performance banks. Bank funds management is an increasingly major component of bank financial management. Bank funds management has...

The conclusions of study are summarized as follows: (1) Banks manage some asset-related international banking activities (especially loans but also cash) less consistently and uniformly than liability-related and other international banking activities. (2) The identified category of...

The research objective of this study is to isolate a few "key" financial ratios significantly explaining variation in commercial bank profitability. A methodological objective is to test the operational and statistical results of regressing only variables that strongly discriminate between...

There are three general conclusions from this study of the international activities of U.S. banks. The first two conclusions are based specifically on the 1980 analysis. The third conclusion is based on the analysis for each of the years 1978-1980. The first conclusion is that these banks manage...

This study constructs aggregative profitability estimating equations for commercial banks. These equations were designed to serve three purposes: (1) to give bank management and other interested parties -- such as bank stockholders, bank customers, and investors -- insight into the operating...