Your supervisor has recently promoted you to a financial analyst position in the bank. The chief financial officer (your supervisor's boss) is concerned about the bank's financial position in comparison with past trends and recent positions of similar banks in the region. To analyze the firm, you have been assigned the task of producing a bank performance analysis. You have done this type of report in your money and banking and finance classes, and you know that the first step is to collect financial data on your bank and similar banks in order to make the necessary comparisons and suggestions for performance improvements. You collect the data in Table 1 and Table 2 from internal annual reports and government publications.

1. Identify the strengths and weaknesses of your bank relative to trends over time and in year 3 for all regional banks. What is the relationship between your bank's trends and the year 3 comparison with the region?