Banking and financial market

This assignment concerns a commercial bank (National Australia Bank) and an insurance company (Zurich Insurance Group), and you must support your answers to the questions below with relevant data taken from their annual reports and accounts. a. Compare the latest balance sheet structures of National Australia Bank and Zurich Insurance Group. Explain how the differences in the financial intermediary roles of the two types of organisation are reflected in the differences in the structure of their balance sheets. b. For this part of the assignment, you need to decide to investigate one of the following topics in relation to National Australia Bank: Liquidity. Profitability. Capital. and use the bank's latest available five years' reports and accounts to answer the following questions: (i) Justify, the use of appropriate metrics to measure the bank's liquidity, profitability or capital. (ii) Compare and contrast how the bank's liquidity, profitability or capital has varied over the last five years. (iii) Analyse the reasons for the changes that you have identified in (ii) above. Date: 21/08/2013 Referencing: Harvard Words: 2500-2700