Assignment structure guidelines for students:

Students are required to apply the following structure to their assignment:

Step $1.$ Write a paragraph introduction about the aim of the assignment and the significance of the information in the assignment answers.

Step $2$: Compile a table with the following data from the three different banks that your lecturer specified:

When constructing this table please note that:

The annual reports of banks are normally for the total group of companies with consolidated figures and separate figures for the bank only $($parent entity$).$ Please use group figures when they are available. Otherwise, company $($bank only$)$ figures are applied.

Other assets include all the assets except for cash, trade securities$,$ investment securities$,$ and loans.

Step $3$: Discuss each of the asset types contained in the table that you constructed in step $2$ by providing the following explanations: