Saturday, August 05, 2006

Financial analysis and reporting

Financial analysis is the activity measuring the financial reality of an institution from various perspectives like value, sensitivity of value to market movements, statistical losses, income, ...

It is the core activity to put the complex reality of a financial institution under control and give transparency to all levels of management and auditing.

Financial analysis and reporting requires usually intense computer processing power due to the huge number of contractual relationships the company has with other counterparties and the number of contractual and potential cash-flows that are exchanged.

Some typical figures for a commercial bank:

  • 5 million contracts
  • 500'000 cash-flows
  • sensitivity to thousands of correlated risk factors

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