Outline of finance
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Finance studies and addresses the ways in which individuals, businesses and organizations raise, allocate and use monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to finance:
[edit] Essence of finance
The term finance may incorporate any of the following:
- The study of money and other assets
- The management and control of those assets
- Profiling and managing project risks
- As a verb, "to finance" is to provide funds for business.
[edit] Branches of finance
[edit] Fundamental financial concepts
- Finance an overview
- Arbitrage
- Capital (economics)
- Capital asset pricing model
- Cash flow
- Cash flow matching
- Debt
- Discounted cash flow
- Financial capital
- Financial modeling
- Entrepreneur
- Fixed income analysis
- Gap financing
- Hedge
- Interest rate
- Short rate model
- Interest
- Investment
- Leverage
- Locked-in value
- Long (finance)
- Liquidity
- Margin (finance)
- Mark to future
- Mark to market
- Market Impact
- Medium of exchange
- Microcredit
- Money creation
- Money
- Portfolio
- Reference rate
- Return
- Right-financing
- Risk
- Scenario analysis
- Short (finance)
- Speculation
- Position trader
- Spread
- Standard of deferred payment
- Store of value
- Time horizon
- Time value of money
- Unit of account
- Volatility
- Yield
- Yield curve
[edit] History of finance
- Tulip mania 1620s/1630s
- South Sea Bubble & Mississipi Company 1710s; see also Stock market bubble
- Panic of 1837
- Railway mania 1840s
- Erie War 1860s
- Long Depression 1873 to 1896
- Post-WWI hyperinflation; see Hyperinflation and Inflation in the Weimar Republic
- Wall Street Crash 1929
- Great Depression 1930s
- Oil Shock 1973
- 1979 energy crisis
- Notable Bankrupts
- Savings and Loan Crisis 1980s
- Black Monday 1987
- Asian financial crisis 1990s
- Dot-com bubble 1995-2001
- Stock market downturn of 2002
- United States housing bubble 2001-
[edit] Finance terms, by field
[edit] Accounting (financial record keeping)
- Main articles: Accounting and List of accounting topics
- Auditing
- Accounting software
- Book keeping
- FASB
- Financial accountancy
- Management accounting
- Philosophy of Accounting
- Working capital
[edit] Banking
[edit] Corporate finance
- Balance sheet analysis
- Business plan
- Capital budgeting
- Corporate action
- Managerial finance
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Real options
- Return on investment
- Working capital management
[edit] Investment management
- Fund management
- Visualization of Financial Implications
[edit] Personal finance
- 529 plan (college savings)
- Budget
- Coverdell Education Savings Account (Coverdell ESAs, formerly known as Education IRAs)
- Credit and debt
- Debit card
- Direct deposit
- Employment contract
- Financial literacy
- Insurance
- Predatory lending
- Retirement plan
- Social security
- Tax advantage
- Wealth
- Comparison of accounting software
- Personal financial management
- Investment club
- Collective investment scheme
- Car financing
[edit] Public finance
- Central bank
- Federal Reserve
- Fractional-reserve banking
- Tax
- crowding out
- Industrial policy
- Agricultural policy
- Currency union
- Monetary reform
[edit] Insurance
- Actuarial science
- Annuities
- Catastrophe modeling
- Earthquake loss
- Extended coverage
- Insurable interest
- Insurable risk
- Insurance
- Insurance contract
- Risk Retention Group
[edit] Economics and finance
[edit] Mathematics and finance
[edit] Time value of money
[edit] Financial mathematics
[edit] Mathematical tools
[edit] Derivatives pricing
- Main article: Derivatives pricing
- Options (and Real options)
- Interest rate derivatives
- Short-rate models (used in pricing bond options, swaptions and other interest rate derivatives)
[edit] Constraint finance
- Creditary economics
- Environmental finance
- Feminist economics
- Green economics
- Islamic economics
- Uneconomic growth
- Value of Earth
- Value of life
[edit] Virtual finance
[edit] Financial markets
[edit] Market and instruments
- Capital markets
- Securities
- Financial markets
- Primary market
- Initial public offering
- Aftermarket
- Free market
- Bull market
- Bear market
- Bear market rally
- Market maker
- Dow Jones Industrial Average
- Nasdaq
- List of stock exchanges
- List of stock market indices
- List of corporations by market capitalization
[edit] Equity market
- Stock market
- Stock
- Common stock
- Preferred stock
- Treasury stock
- Equity investment
- Index investing
- Private Equity
- Financial reports and statements
- Fundamental analysis
- Dividend
- Dividend yield
- Stock split
[edit] Equity valuation
- Dow Theory
- Elliott Wave Theory
- Economic value added
- Gordon model
- Growth stock
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Leveraged buyout
- Takeover
- Corporate raid
- PE ratio
- Market capitalization
- Income per share
- Stock valuation
- Technical analysis
- Chart patterns
- V-trend
[edit] Investment theory
- Behavioral finance
- Dead cat bounce
- Efficient market hypothesis
- Market microstructure
- Stock market crash
- Stock market bubble
- January effect
- Mark Twain effect
- Quantitative behavioral finance
- Quantitative analyst
- Statistical arbitrage
[edit] Bond market
- Bond (finance)
- Zero-coupon bond
- Junk bonds
- Convertible bond
- Accrual bond
- Municipal bond
- Sovereign bond
- Bond valuation
- Fixed income
[edit] Money market
- Repurchase agreement
- International Money Market
- Currency
- Exchange rate
- International currency codes
- Table of historical exchange rates
[edit] Commodity market
- Commodity
- Asset
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Day trading
- Drawdowns
- Forfaiting
- Fundamental analysis
- Futures contract
- Fungibility
- Gold as an investment
- Hedging
- Jesse Lauriston Livermore
- List of traded commodities
- MACD
- Ownership equity
- Position trader
- Risk (Futures)
- Seasonal traders
- Seasonal spread trading
- Slippage
- Speculation
- Spread
- Technical analysis
- Trade
- Trend
[edit] Derivatives market
- Derivative (finance)
- (see also Financial mathematics topics; Derivatives pricing)
- Underlying instrument
[edit] Forward markets and contracts
[edit] Futures markets and contracts
[edit] Option markets and contracts
- Options
- Stock option
- Warrants
- Foreign exchange option
- Interest rate options
- Bond options
- Real options
- Options on futures
[edit] Swap markets and contracts
- see: w:Swap (finance)
[edit] Derivative markets by underlyings
[edit] Equity derivatives
- Accelerated Market Participation Securities (AMPS)
- Accelerated Return Equity Securities (ARES)
- Asset Return Obligation Securities (ASTROS)
- Automatic Common Exchange Securities (ACES)
- Basket Adjusting Structured Equity Securities (BASES)
- Basket Opportunity Exchangeable Securities (BOXES)
- Bifurcated Option Note Unit Securities (BONUSES)
- Broad Index Guarded Equity-Linked Securities (BRIDGES)
- Canadian Originated Preferred Securities (COPrS)
- Closed-end fund
- Commodity-Indexed Preferred Securities (ComPS)
- Common-Linked Higher Income Participation Securities (CHIPS)
- Common stock
- Convertible Contingent Debt Securities (CODES)
- Corporate-Backed Trust Securities (CorTS)
- Corporate Obligation Basket Listed Trust Securities (COBALTS)
- Currency Protected Notes (CPNS), (SPNS)
- Currency Protected Securities (CPS)
- Customized Upside Basket Securities (CUBS)
- Debt Exchangeable for Common Stock (DECS)
- Equity Growth Long-Term Strategy (EGLS)
- Enhanced Equity-Linked Debt Securities (ELKS)
- Enhanced Income Securities (EISs)
- Enhanced Stock Index Growth Notes (E-SIGNS)
- Equity Providing Preferred Income Convertible Securities (EPPICS)
- Exchange Preferred Income Cumulative Shares (EPICS)
- Exchange-traded fund (ETF)
- Exchangeable Capital Units (ExCaps)
- Foreign Currency Return Notes (FORENS)
- Global Bond Linked Securities (GLOBELS)
- Hybrid Income Securities Units (HITS)
- Income Deposit Securities (IDS)
- Inverse exchange-traded fund
- Leading Stockmarket Return Securities (LASERS)
- Leveraged Upside Indexed Accelerated Return Securities (LUNARS)
- Liquid Yield Option Notes (Zero Cupon) (LYONS)
- Mandatorily Exchangeable Debt Securities MEDS)
- Mandatory Adjustable Redeemable Convertible Securities (MARCS)
- Market Index Target Term Securities (MITTS)
- Market Participation Securities (MPS)
- Medium Term Equity Related Investment Securities (MERITS)
- Monthly Income Debt Securities (MIDS)
- Monthly Income Preferred Securities (MIPS)
- Participating Index Notes (PINS)
- Performance Equity-Linked Redemption Quarterly Pay Securities (PERQS)
- Performance Equity-Return Linked Securities (PERKS)
- Performance Leveraged Upside Securities (PLUS)
- Principal Accruing Enhanced Return Securities (PACERS)
- Preferred Equity Redemption Cumulative Stock (PERCS)
- Preferred Income Equity Redeemable Shares (PIERS)
- Preferred Redeemable Increased Dividend Equity Securities (PRIDES)
- Preferred stock
- Premium Equity Participating Securities (PEPS)
- Premium Income Equity Securities (PIES)
- Protected Exchangeable Equity-Linked Securities (PEEQS)
- Protected Growth Securities (ProGroS)
- Protected Performance Equity Linked Securities (PROPELS)
- Public Credit & Repackaged Securities (PCARS)
- Public Income Notes (PINES)
- Putable Automatic Rate Reset Securities (PARRS)
- Quarterly Income Capital Securities (QUICS)
- Quarterly Income Debt Securities (QUIDS)
- Quarterly Income Preferred Securities (QUIPS)
- Quarterly Interest Bond (QUIB)
- Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)
- Reset Put Securities (REPS)
- Return Enhanced Convertible Securities (RECONS)
- Rights
- Risk Adjusting Equity Range Securities (RANGERS)
- Secure Principal Energy Receipts (SPERS)
- Select Equity Indexed Notes (SEQUINS)
- Senior Quarterly Income Debt Securities (SQUIDS)
- Shared Preference Redeemable Securities (SpuRS)
- Shares of Beneficial Interest (SBI)
- Step-Up Increasing Redeemable Equity Notes (SIRENS)
- Step-Up REIT Securities (StREITs)
- Stock Appreciation Income-Linked Securities (SAILS)
- Stock market Annual Reset Term (Notes) (SMART)
- Stock Participation Accreting Redemption Quarterly-pay Securities (SPARQS)
- Stock Return Income Debt Securities (STRIDES)
- Stock Upside Note Securities (SUNS)
- Structured Asset Trust Unit Repackaging (SATURNS)
- Structured Repackaged Asset-Backed Trust Securities (STRATS)
- Structured Yield Product Exchangeable for Common Stock (STRYPES)
- Subordinated Capital Income Securities (SKIS)
- Target Return Investment Growth Securities (TRIGGERS)
- Targeted Efficient Equity Securities (TEES)
- Targeted Growth Enhanced Terms Securities (TARGETS)
- Term Convertible Securities (TECONS)
- Threshold Appreciation Price Securities (TAPS)
- Trust Automatic Common Exchange Securities (TRACES)
- Trust Certificate (TRUC)
- Trust Investment Enhanced Return Securities (TIERS)
- Trust Issued Mandatory Exchange Securities (TIMES)
- Trust Originated Preferred Securities (TOPrS)
- Trust Preferred Stock (TruPs)
- Trust Units Exchangeable for Preference Shares (TrUEPrS)
- Warrants
- Warrants & Income Redeemable Equity Securities (WIRES)
- Yield Enhanced Equity-Linked Debt Securities (YEELDS)
- Yield Enhanced Stock (YES)
[edit] Interest rate derivatives
- LIBOR
- Forward rate agreement
- Interest rate swap
- Interest rate cap
- Exotic interest rate option
- Bond option
- Forward rate agreement
- Interest rate future
- Money market instruments
- Interest rate swap
- Range accrual Swaps/Notes/Bonds
- In-arrears Swap
- Constant maturity swap (CMS) or constant treasury swap (CTS) derivatives (swaps, caps, floors)
- Interest rate Swaption
- Bermudan swaptions
- Cross currency swaptions
- Power Reverse Dual Currency note (PRDC or Turbo)
- Target redemption note (TARN)
- CMS steepener
- Snowball
- Inverse floater
- Strips of Collateralized mortgage obligation
- Ratchet caps and floors
[edit] Credit derivatives
- Credit default swap
- Collateralized debt obligation
- Credit default option
- Total return swap
- Securitization
[edit] Foreign exchange derivative
- Foreign exchange option
- Currency future
- Forex swap
- Foreign exchange hedge
- Binary option: Foreign exchange
[edit] Financial regulation
[edit] Designations and accreditation
- Certified Financial Planner
- Chartered Financial Analyst
- Chartered Financial Consultant
- Canadian Securities Institute
- Independent Financial Adviser
- Financial Risk Manager
- Chartered Accountant
[edit] Fraud
[edit] Industry bodies
[edit] Regulatory bodies
[edit] United Kingdom
[edit] European Union
[edit] United States
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission (U.S.)
- Federal Reserve
- Federal Trade Commission
- Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (US)
- Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (US)
- Securities and Exchange Commission
[edit] United States legislation
- Glass-Steagall Act (US)
- Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (US)
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act (US)
- Securities Act of 1933 (US)
- Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (US)
- Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (US)
- USA PATRIOT Act
[edit] Actuarial topics
[edit] Asset types
[edit] Raising capital
[edit] Valuation
[edit] Discounted cash flow valuation
- Cash flow
- Time value of money
- Bond valuation
- Equity valuation
[edit] Relative valuation
- Dividend yield
- Financial ratio
- Market-based valuation
- PE ratio
- Relative valuation
- Stock image
- Stock profile
[edit] Contingent claim valuation
- See derivatives pricing below.
[edit] Financial software tools
- Straight Through Processing Software
- Technical Analysis Software
- Algorithmic trading
- List of numerical analysis software
- Comparison of numerical analysis software
[edit] Financial institutions
- Bank
- Bank holding company
- Building society
- Clearing house
- Commercial lender
- Community development financial institution
- Credit rating agency
- Credit union
- Diversified financial
- Edge Act Corporation
- Export Credit Agencies
- Financial adviser
- Financial intermediary
- Financial planner
- Futures exchange
- Government sponsored enterprise
- Hard money lender
- Independent Financial Adviser
- Industrial loan company
- Insurance regulatory
- Insurance company
- Investment adviser
- Investment company
- Investment trust
- Large and Complex Financial Institutions
- Mutual fund
- Non-banking financial company
- Prime brokerage
- Retail broker
- Savings and loan association
- Stock broker
- Stock exchange
- Trust company
[edit] Persons influential in the field of finance
[edit] Finance scholars
[edit] Finance-related lists
- List of accounting topics
- List of management topics
- List of marketing topics
- List of economics topics
- List of international trade topics
- List of information technology management topics
- List of production topics
- List of business law topics
- List of business ethics, political economy, and philosophy of business topics
- List of business theorists
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
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- Wharton Finance Knowledge Project - aimed to offer free access to finance knowledge for students, teachers, and self-learners.
- Comprehensive site about topics of financial theory, with a focus in Corporate Finance, Valuation and Investments. Updated Data, Excel Spreadsheets and more. Prof. Aswath Damodaran
- For links to finance web sites, grouped by topic see Web Sites for Discerning Finance Students, Prof. John M. Wachowicz-
- For the introductory finance web site at the University of Arizona, studyfinance.com
- For introductory articles, a full glossary and links to resources on behavioral finance see the BF gallery
- For the law of the financial markets see SECLaw.com
- For stock market related financial definitions see TheStreet.com Glossary
- The Finance Director provides access to essential suppliers of financial services and solutions
- Middle East Banking & Finance News — ArabianBusiness.com
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