What the questions look like
Every question in the free CFA Level II bank carries a full worked solution. Here is one from the pool:
The clean surplus relation states:
where is book value, is earnings (net income), and is dividends. This means all changes in book value other than ownership transactions flow through the income statement; there are no 'dirty surplus' items that bypass income. The clean surplus relation requires that all changes in equity (other than transactions with owners like dividends) are captured in net income.