IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ris/jofitr/1396.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Bank cash flows – a source of new insight?

Author

Listed:

Abstract

The financial crisis has exposed deep-rooted problems with banks' financial reporting. Long neglected in analyses of bank performance, this article recommends a new focus on bank cash flows. We identify weaknesses and deficiencies in the existing literature on banking performance. Short case studies of Northern Rock and HBOS show that analysis of the cash flow statement can provide fresh insight into a bank's financial health. However, the article also argues that the international accounting standard governing cash flow reporting is poorly suited to the needs of banks. A survey of U.K. and Eurozone banks reveals inconsistencies between banks, a lack of detail, key flows netted off, and poor reconciliation with other financial statements. The article concludes by proposing various changes to improve the quality and utility of bank cash flow reporting.

Suggested Citation

  • Klumpes, Paul & Welch, Peter & Reibel, Andres, 2009. "Bank cash flows – a source of new insight?," Journal of Financial Transformation, Capco Institute, vol. 26, pages 69-78.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:jofitr:1396
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Tamar Mdivnishvili & Shalva Mkhatrishvili & Davit Tutberidze, 2020. "Cash Flow at Risk Assessment for the Banking Sector of Georgia," NBG Working Papers 03/2020, National Bank of Georgia.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Financial crisis; bank financial reporting; cash flow reporting;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • M41 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Accounting
    • M48 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Government Policy and Regulation

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ris:jofitr:1396. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Prof. Shahin Shojai (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.capco.com/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.