Znaczenie zyskowności, wartości księgowej oraz rachunku przepływów pieniężnych w polskim systemie bankowym

The paper aims to investigate the relative value relevance of the fundamental items from the financial statements of banks: net earnings, book values of equity and cash flows in the context of the capital market of Poland. The examined sample covered all domestically-based banks listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange over the period 1997–2014. The research methods employed involved parametric and non-parametric analyses of correlation, as well as simple and stepwise multiple linear regression. The obtained results are consistent with the findings of prior international studies and indicate that the market value of banks is most strongly related to book values of equity followed by net earnings. On the other hand cash flows reported by banks seem to be of a limited informativeness for equity investors as they do not provide any significant incremental explanatory power beyond that conveyed by book values of equity and net earnings.