A financial processing system that accesses account, event and
organization attributes from a relational database management database,
wherein: (1) the account attributes comprise data about accounts being
measured, (2) the event attributes comprise data about account-related
transactions, and (3) the organization attributes comprise data about the
organization's financial status. Profitability calculations are performed
using the account, event and organization attributes accessed from the
relational database management system, as well as one or more profit
factors and one or more rules. The profitability calculations include the
following:
TABLE-US-00001
Profit = Net Interest Revenue (NIR)
+ Other Revenue (OR)
- Direct Expense (DE)
- Indirect Expense (TE)
- Risk Provision (RP)
In this calculation, the Net Interest Revenue (NIR) comprises:
TABLE-US-00002
NIR = Interest Revenue
- Cost of Funds
+ Value of Funds
- Interest Expense
+ Earnings on Allocated Equity
The Earnings on Allocated Equity includes an identification of how much
equity to allocate to the accounts, and one or more rates used in the
calculation of the NIR due to the allocation.