Analysts will want to see how Commonwealth Bank of Australia Ltd (CBA) will diversify its funding sources to maintain growth, when the country's biggest lender announces its first-half results on Wednesday.
The approximate profit figure is already known after CBA announced on January 15 that cash profit would be about $2.9 billion for the six months ending December 31, equivalent to a 44 per cent gain from a year earlier.
The banks prefer the cash profit figure as a measure of profitability because it takes out some unrealised changes in asset values.