I am new to the world of CRA submissions and even though the FI qualifies as an ISB, we are going to submit CRA data for Large Bank Examination Purposes.

So, here are a few questions that have come up as we are goign through the submission process.

1. When attempting to export the reportable data, the follow errors appear, missing Assessment Area(s) and missing Community Development.

Does this means that we need to define our assessment area again or can we use last years assessment areas, if it has not changed? Additionally, our L/AR for CRA purposes contains all "business purpose loans". So, how can we edit out the non-required information?

Thanks in advance.

Missing community development means nothing has been entered. Click on Add then on Community Development.

Enter the TOTAL number and dollar amount of any CD loans originated in 2005. If none enter 0 in each field

Click on Assessment Area and see if any data entered. If not reenter your AA.

Not sure what you mean by edit out non required information. Are you referring to loans that are not Small Business or Small Farm?

Also run the "Batch Edit" first and then the individual "Error" reports. The Batch Edit does not check for all errors so you need to run the individual Error reports as well.