If he becomes a deacon, he tells the treasurer his financial condition.

The inability to determine their worth has fostered uncertainty about mortgage assets, and even about the financial condition of the institutions that own them.

You will find it far more helpful to understand their likes and dislikes than their financial condition for the last ten years.

Last month it reported half-year losses of 311 million and said it was in a 'critical financial condition'.

In any case, as banks' financial condition weakens, their ability to lend, already severely constrained, will be crimped further.