Annual financial statements of the bank (Switzerland)

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Due to the special public interest in a healthy banking system and the particularities of the banking business, special accounting regulations apply to the annual financial statements of banks . A certain minimum structure must also be observed.

The following illustration is based on the general banking law framework in Switzerland. Similar requirements apply to Germany; the terms and provisions for the individual accounting items are e.g. T. different. For a presentation of the accounting of German banks, see German bank accounting .

Balance sheet

In the individual financial statements, the balance sheet is structured as follows:

1 Active
1.1 Liquid funds
1.2 Money market paper claims
1.3 Claims on banks
1.4 Receivables from customers
1.5 Mortgage claims
1.6 Trading portfolios in securities and precious metals
1.7 Financial assets
1.8 Holdings
1.9 Property, plant and equipment
1.1 Accruals and deferrals
1.11 Other assets
1.12 Unpaid share capital
1.13 Total assets
2 Passives
2.1 Money market paper obligations
2.2 Obligations to banks
2.3 Obligations to customers in the form of savings and investments
2.4 Other obligations to customers
2.5 Medium-term notes
2.6 Bonds and Pfandbrief Loans
2.7 Accruals and deferrals
2.8 Other liabilities
2.9 Value adjustments and provisions
2,101 Reserves for general banking risks
2.11 Share capital
2.12 General legal reserve
2.13 Reserve for own shares
2.14 Revaluation reserve
2.152 Other reserves
2.16 Profit carried forward
2.17 Annual profit
2.18          - loss carryforward
2.19          - annual loss
2.2 Total liabilities

The off- balance-sheet transactions , the income statement and the cash flow statement are then listed.

Off-balance sheet transactions

According to Swiss law, off-balance-sheet business shows at least the following items:

3 Off-balance sheet transactions
3.1 Contingent Liabilities
3.2 Irrevocable commitments
3.3 Payment and additional payment obligations
3.4 Commitment Loans
3.5 Derivative financial instruments E.g. FRAs (Forward Rate Agreements), interest rate swaps, currency swaps
3.6 Fiduciary business Fiduciary investments with third-party banks

Bank income statement

In accordance with Swiss law, the income statement in the individual financial statements must be structured as follows:

1 Income and expenses from ordinary banking business
1.1 Success from the interest business
1.1.1 Interest and discount income
1.1.2 Interest and dividend income from trading portfolios
1.1.3 Interest and dividend income from financial investments
1.1.4 Interest expense
1.1.5 Subtotal success interest business
1.2 Success from the commission and service business
1.2.1 Commission income from lending business
1.2.2 Commission income from securities and investment business
1.2.3 Commission income from other service business
1.2.4 Commission expenses
1.2.5 Subtotal success in commission and service business
1.3 Success from trading business
1.4 Other decent success
1.4.1 Income from the sale of financial assets
1.4.2 Investment income
1.4.3 Real estate success
1.4.4 Other decent yield
1.4.5 Other neat effort
1.4.6 Subtotally other decent success
1.5 Business expense
1.5.1 Personnel expenses
1.5.2 Material expenses
1.5.3 Subtotal business expenses
1.6 Gross profit
2 Annual profit / annual loss
2.1 Gross profit
2.2 Depreciation on fixed assets
2.3 Value adjustments, provisions and losses
2.4 Intermediate result
2.5 Extraordinary income
2.6 Extraordinary expenses
2.7 Taxes
2.8 Annual profit / annual loss
3 Appropriation of profit / loss compensation
3.1 Annual profit / annual loss
3.2 Profit / loss carried forward
3.3 Balance sheet profit / balance sheet loss
3.4 Appropriation of profits
          - Allocation to reserve
          –Distributions on the company's capital
          –Other appropriations of profits
Loss to be offset
          - Withdrawal from reserves
          -Other loss compensation
3.5 Profit / loss carried forward

Individual evidence

  1. Ordinance on Banks and Savings Banks (BankV), Art. 25
  2. Ordinance on Banks and Savings Banks (BankV), Art. 25a
  3. Ordinance on Banks and Savings Banks (BankV), Art. 25b