finance
Sign in to saveFinance refers to monetary resources and to the study and discipline of money, currency, assets and liabilities. As a subject of study, it is a field of business administration which involves the planning, organizing, leading, and controlling of an organization's resources to achieve its goals. Based on the scope of financial activities in financial systems, the discipline can be divided into personal, corporate, and public finance.
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Finance refers to money, currency, assets, and liabilities, and encompasses the study of how to manage these resources effectively. It matters because it provides the knowledge and practices needed to plan, organize, and control an organization's resources—whether at the personal, corporate, or public level—to achieve important goals.
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- The financial system
- Areas of finance
- Personal finance
- Corporate finance
- Public finance
- Investment management
- Risk management
- Quantitative finance
- Financial theory
- Managerial finance
- Financial economics
- Financial mathematics
- Experimental finance
- Behavioral finance
- Intangible asset finance
- Quantum finance
- History of finance
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Finance refers to monetary resources and to the study and discipline of money, currency, assets and liabilities. As a subject of study, it is a field of business administration which involves the planning, organizing, leading, and controlling of an organization's resources to achieve its goals. Based on the scope of financial activities in financial systems, the discipline can be divided into personal, corporate, and public finance.
In these financial systems, assets are bought, sold, or traded as financial instruments, such as currencies, loans, bonds, shares, stocks, options, futures, swaps, etc. Assets can also be banked, invested, and insured to maximize value and minimize loss. In practice, risks are always present in any financial action and entities.