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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to finance:
Finance – 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.
[edit] Overview
The word 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
[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
- Long (finance)
- Liquidity
- Margin (finance)
- 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 trade
- Standard of deferred payment
- Store of value
- Time horizon
- Time value of money
- Unit of account
- Volatility
- Yield
- Yield curve
[edit] History
- Tulip mania 1620s/1630s
- South Sea Bubble & Mississippi Company 1710s; see also Stock market bubble
- Vix Pervenit 1745, on usury and other dishonest profit
- 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
- 1973 oil crisis
- 1979 energy crisis
- 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
- Financial crisis of 2007–2010
[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
- Anonymous banking
- Automatic teller machine
- Deposit
- Deposit creation multiplier
- International Bank Account Number
- Loan
- Withdrawal
[edit] Corporate finance
Main article: 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
[edit] Personal finance
Main article: Personal finance
- 529 plan (college savings)
- Asset Allocation
- 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
[edit] Public finance
Main article: Public finance
- Central bank
- Federal Reserve
- Fractional-reserve banking
- Tax
- Capital gains tax
- Estate tax (and inheritance tax)
- Gift tax
- Income tax
- Inheritance tax
- Payroll tax
- Property tax (including land value tax)
- Sales tax (including value added tax, excise tax, and use tax)
- Transfer tax (including stamp duty)
- Tax advantage
- Tax, tariff and trade
- crowding out
- Industrial policy
- Agricultural policy
- Currency union
- Monetary reform
[edit] Insurance
Main article: 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
Main article: Time value of money
[edit] Financial mathematics
Main article: Financial mathematics
[edit] Mathematical tools
- Stochastic calculus
[edit] Derivatives pricing
- Main article: Derivatives pricing
- Options (and Real options)
- Interest rate derivatives (bond options, swaptions, caps and floors, and others)
- Black model
- Short-rate models
- Forward rate-based models
- LIBOR market model (also called: Brace–Gatarek–Musiela Model, BGM)
- Heath–Jarrow–Morton Model (HJM)
[edit] Constraint finance
- 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
- Value Line Composite Index
[edit] Equity market
Main article: 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
Main article: Equity valuation
- Dow Theory
- Elliott Wave Theory
- Economic value added
- Fibonacci retracement
- 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
Main article: 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
Main article: Bond market
- Bond (finance)
- Zero-coupon bond
- Junk bonds
- Convertible bond
- Accrual bond
- Municipal bond
- Sovereign bond
- Bond valuation
- Fixed income
[edit] Money market
Main article: Money market
- Repurchase agreement
- International Money Market
- Currency
- Exchange rate
- International currency codes
- Table of historical exchange rates
[edit] Commodity market
Main article: 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
- Ownership equity
- Position trader
- Risk (Futures)
- Seasonal traders
- Seasonal spread trading
- Slippage
- Speculation
- Spread trade
- Technical analysis
- Trade
- Trend
[edit] Derivatives market
Main article: Derivatives market
- Derivative (finance)
- (see also Financial mathematics topics; Derivatives pricing)
- Underlying instrument
[edit] Forward markets and contracts
Main article: Forward market
[edit] Futures markets and contracts
Main article: Futures market
[edit] Option markets and contracts
Main article: Option market
- Options
- Stock option
- Warrants
- Foreign exchange option
- Interest rate options
- Bond options
- Real options
- Options on futures
[edit] Swap markets and contracts
Main article: Swap market
- see: w:Swap (finance)
[edit] Derivative markets by underlyings
[edit] Equity derivatives
Main article: Equity derivative
- Contract for difference (CFD)
- Exchange-traded fund (ETF)
- Equity options
- Equity swap
- Real estate investment trust (REIT)
- Warrants
[edit] Interest rate derivatives
Main article: Interest rate derivative
- LIBOR
- Forward rate agreement
- Interest rate swap
- Interest rate cap
- Exotic interest rate option
- Bond option
- Interest rate future
- Money market instruments
- 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
Main article: Credit derivative
- Credit default swap
- Collateralized debt obligation
- Credit default option
- Total return swap
- Securitization
[edit] Foreign exchange derivative
Main article: 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 Alternative Investment Analyst
- Professional Risk Manager
- Chartered Financial Consultant
- Canadian Securities Institute
- Independent Financial Adviser
- Financial Risk Manager
- Chartered Accountant
[edit] Litigation
[edit] Fraud
[edit] Industry bodies
[edit] Regulatory bodies
- Main article List of financial regulatory authorities by country
[edit] International
- Bank for International Settlements
- International Organization of Securities Commissions
- Security Commission
- Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
- Basel Accords – Basel I, Basel II
- International Association of Insurance Supervisors
- International Accounting Standards Board
[edit] European Union
[edit] Regulatory bodies by country
[edit] United Kingdom
[edit] United States
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Federal Reserve
- Federal Trade Commission
- Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board
- Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
- 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
Main article: Discounted cash flow
- 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
- List of banks
- Advising bank
- Central bank
- Commercial bank
- Community development bank
- Cooperative bank
- Custodian bank
- Depository bank
- Ethical bank
- Investment bank
- Islamic banking
- Merchant bank
- Microcredit
- Mutual bank
- Mutual savings bank
- National bank
- Offshore bank
- Private bank
- Savings bank
- Swiss bank
- Bank holding company
- Building society
- Broker
- 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 company
- Investment adviser
- Investment company
- Investment trust
- Large and Complex Financial Institutions
- Mutual fund
- Non-banking financial company
- Savings and loan association
- Stock exchange
- Trust company
[edit] Lists
- Index of accounting articles
- Outline of business management
- Outline of marketing
- Outline of economics
- Outline of production
- List of international trade topics
- List of information technology management topics
- List of business law topics
- List of business ethics, political economy, and philosophy of business topics
- List of business theorists
[edit] See also
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