Traditional and Alternative Performance Measurements for Banks

A comparative analysis of the Swiss Cantonal Banks

Diploma Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 5.1, , course: Financial Management and Accounting Research, language: English, abstract: In recent years, alternative performance measurements for banks have become increasingly important and are now being used alongside traditional indicators to evaluate the financial health of an institution. This paper will discuss both groups of performance figures and show their weaknesses and strengths in comparison to each other. In the empirical analysis, all 24 Swiss cantonal banks were evaluated on the before-mentioned indicators during the latest financial crisis from 2006 until 2011.