a) Discuss why banks are special in every society.  b) Discuss two specific financial services provided by banks to meet the need of Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) in Ghana. c) Discuss three ways in which banks use to make profit. d) Discuss the examples of two universal banks in Ghana who have form business alliances, merge with or acquire other financial institutions to deliver and streamline operations for the benefits of stakeholders.

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QUESTION ONE You are a lead researcher with a public interest firm specializing in the financial reporting and audit of publicly funded organizations and have consulted widely across Africa on public sector financial reforms. Particularly, you have earned a reputation as a champion of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) in Ghana and beyond. Following Ghana’s adoption of IPSAS, some members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana (ICAG) argued that IPSAS is a duplication of IFRS and that Ghana could have just opted to require IFRS application by publicly funded entities. Given the above, the Institute has engaged your team of experts to critically evaluate all existing IPSAS and IFRS highlighting areas of significant differences between the two reporting frameworks. Your report will be used by the Institute in its next continuous professional development (CPD) for chartered accountants in Ghana. Your critical review and comparison of…

3. What companies can we compare to a bank to in the financial services industry? ( e.g. like Walmart and Nordstrom are in the retail industry so we can compare them.)