The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to finance:
Finance – addresses the ways in which individuals and organizations raise and allocate monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects.
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
Finance Overview
Arbitrage
Capital (economics)
Capital asset pricing model
Cash flow
Cash flow matching
Debt
Default
Consumer debt
Debt consolidation
Debt settlement
Credit counseling
Bankruptcy
Debt diet
Debt-snowball method
Discounted cash flow
Financial capital
Funding
Financial modeling
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship
Fixed income analysis
Gap financing
Hedge
Basis risk
Interest rate
Risk-free interest rate
Term structure of interest rates
Short rate model
Vasicek model
Cox–Ingersoll–Ross model
Hull–White model
Chen model
Black–Derman–Toy model
Interest
Effective interest rate
Nominal interest rate
Interest rate basis
Fisher equation
Crowding out
Annual percentage rate
Interest coverage ratio
Investment
Foreign direct investment
Gold as an investment
Over-investing
Leverage
Long (finance)
Liquidity
Margin (finance)
Mark to market
Market Impact
Medium of exchange
Microcredit
Money creation
Money
Currency
Coin
Banknote
Counterfeit
Portfolio
Modern portfolio theory
Mutual fund separation theorem
Post-modern portfolio theory
Reference rate
Reset
Return
Absolute return
Investment performance
Relative return
Right-financing
Risk
Financial risk
Risk management
Financial risk management
Risk measure
Coherent risk measure
Deviation risk measure
Spectral risk measure
Value at risk
Expected shortfall
Entropic Value at risk
Scenario analysis
Short (finance)
Speculation
Day trading
Position trader
Spread trade
Standard of deferred payment
Store of value
Time horizon
Time value of money
Discounting
Present value
Future value
Net present value
Internal rate of return
Modified internal rate of return
Annuity
Perpetuity
Unit of account
Volatility
Yield
Yield curve
History of banking
History of insurance
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-World War I hyperinflation; see Hyperinflation and Inflation in the Weimar Republic
Wall Street Crash 1929
Great Depression 1930s
Bretton Woods Accord 1944
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
Auditing
Accounting software
Book keeping
FASB
Financial accountancy
Financial statements
Balance sheet
Cash flow statement
Income statement
Management accounting
Philosophy of Accounting
Working capital
Anonymous banking
Automatic teller machine
Deposit
Deposit creation multiplier
Ethical banking
International Bank Account Number
Islamic banking
Loan
Pre-qualification
Pre-approval
Subprime
Withdrawal
Balance sheet analysis
Financial ratio
Business plan
Capital budgeting
Investment policy
Business valuation
Stock valuation
Fundamental analysis
Real options
Valuation topics
Fisher separation theorem
Sources of financing
Capital structure
Cost of capital
Weighted average cost of capital
Modigliani–Miller theorem
Dividend policy
Dividend
Dividend tax
Dividend yield
Modigliani–Miller theorem
Corporate action
Managerial finance
Management accounting
Mergers and acquisitions
leveraged buyout
takeover
corporate raid
Real options
Working capital management
Working capital
Current assets
Current liabilities
Return on investment
Return on capital
Return on assets
Return on equity
loan covenant
cash conversion cycle
Cash management
Supply chain management
Just In Time (JIT)
Economic order quantity (EOQ)
Economic production quantity (EPQ)
Credit (finance)
Credit scoring
Default risk
Discounts and allowances
Factoring (trade)
Investment management
Active management
Efficient market hypothesis
Portfolio
Modern portfolio theory
Capital asset pricing model
Arbitrage pricing theory
Passive management
Index fund
Activist shareholder
Mutual fund
Open-end fund
Closed-end fund
List of mutual-fund families
Financial engineering
Long-Term Capital Management
Hedge fund
Hedge
529 plan (college savings)
Asset allocation
Asset location
Budget
Coverdell Education Savings Account (Coverdell ESAs, formerly known as Education IRAs)
Credit and debt
Credit card
Debt consolidation
Mortgage loan
Continuous-repayment mortgage
Debit card
Direct deposit
Employment contract
Commission
Employee stock option
Employee or fringe benefit
Health insurance
Paycheck
Salary
Wage
Financial literacy
Insurance
Predatory lending
Retirement plan
401(a)
401(k)
403(b)
457 plan
Keogh plan
Individual Retirement Account
Roth IRA
Traditional IRA
SEP IRA
SIMPLE IRA
Pension
Simple living
Social security
Tax advantage
Wealth
Comparison of accounting software
Personal financial management
Investment club
Collective investment scheme
Central bank
Federal Reserve
Fractional-reserve banking
Deposit creation multiplier
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
Tax amortization benefit
Crowding out
Industrial policy
Agricultural policy
Currency union
Monetary reform
Actuarial science
Annuities
Catastrophe modeling
Earthquake loss
Extended coverage
Insurable interest
Insurable risk
Insurance
Health insurance
Disability insurance
Injury cover
Flexible spending account
Health savings account
Long term care insurance
Medical savings account
Life insurance
Life insurance tax shelter
Permanent life insurance
Term life insurance
Universal life insurance
Variable universal life insurance
Whole life insurance
Property insurance
Auto insurance
Boiler insurance
Condo insurance
Earthquake insurance
Home insurance
Title insurance
Pet insurance
Renters' insurance
Casualty insurance
Fidelity bond
Liability insurance
Political risk insurance
Surety bond
Terrorism insurance
Credit insurance
Trade credit insurance
Payment protection insurance
Credit derivative
Reinsurance
Self insurance
Travel insurance
Insurance contract
Risk Retention Group
Economics and finance
Economic growth
Financial economics
Mathematical economics
Managerial economics
Utility theory
Present value
Future value
Discounting
Net present value
Internal rate of return
Annuity
Perpetuity
Mathematical tools
Probability
Probability distribution
Binomial distribution
Log-normal distribution
Poisson distribution
Stochastic calculus
Brownian motion
Geometric Brownian motion
Cameron–Martin theorem
Feynman–Kac formula
Girsanov's theorem
Itô's lemma
Martingale representation theorem
Radon–Nikodym derivative
Stochastic differential equations
Stochastic process
Jump process
Lévy process
Markov process
Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process
Wiener process
Monte Carlo methods
Low-discrepancy sequence
Monte Carlo integration
Quasi-Monte Carlo method
Random number generation
Partial differential equations
Finite difference method
Heat equation
Numerical partial differential equations
Crank–Nicolson method
Finite difference method: Numerical analysis
Volatility
ARCH model
GARCH model
Stochastic volatility
Stochastic volatility jump
Derivatives pricing
Brownian model of financial markets
Rational pricing assumptions
Risk neutral valuation
Arbitrage free pricing
Forward contract
Forward contract pricing
Futures
Futures contract pricing
Options (incl. Real options and ESOs)
Black–Scholes formula
Approximations for American options
Barone-Adesi and Whaley
Bjerksund and Stensland
Black's approximation
Optimal stopping
Roll-Geske-Whaley
Black model
Binomial options model
Finite difference methods for option pricing
The Greeks
Margrabe's formula
Monte Carlo methods for option pricing
Monte Carlo methods in finance
Quasi-Monte Carlo methods in finance
Trinomial tree
Volatility
Implied volatility
Historical volatility
Stochastic volatility
Volatility smile
Volatility surface
SABR volatility model
Implied binomial tree
Implied trinomial tree
Edgeworth binomial tree
Swaps
Swap valuation
Interest rate derivatives (bond options, swaptions, caps and floors, and others)
Black model
caps and floors
swaptions
Bond options
Short-rate models (generally applied via lattice based- and specialized simulation-models, although "Black like" formulae exist in some cases.)
Rendleman-Bartter model
Vasicek model
Ho-Lee model
Hull–White model
Cox–Ingersoll–Ross model
Black–Karasinski model
Black–Derman–Toy model
Kalotay–Williams–Fabozzi model
Longstaff–Schwartz model
Chen model
Forward rate-based models (Application as per short-rate models)
LIBOR market model (also called: Brace–Gatarek–Musiela Model, BGM)
Heath–Jarrow–Morton Model (HJM)
Environmental finance
Feminist economics
Green economics
Islamic economics
Uneconomic growth
Value of Earth
Value of life
Virtual finance
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
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
Dow theory
Elliott wave principle
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
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 analysis (finance)
Statistical arbitrage
Bond (finance)
Zero-coupon bond
Junk bonds
Convertible bond
Accrual bond
Municipal bond
Sovereign bond
Bond valuation
Yield to maturity
Bond duration
Bond convexity
Fixed income
Repurchase agreement
International Money Market
Currency
Exchange rate
International currency codes
Table of historical exchange rates
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
Breakout
Bear market
Bottom (technical analysis)
Bull market
MACD
Moving average
Open Interest
Parabolic SAR
Point and figure charts
Resistance
RSI
Stochastic oscillator
Stop loss
Support
Top (technical analysis)
Trade
Trend
Derivative (finance)
(see also Financial mathematics topics; Derivatives pricing)
Underlying instrument
Forward markets and contracts
Forward contract
Futures markets and contracts
Backwardation
Contango
Futures contract
Financial future
Currency future
Interest rate future
Single-stock futures
Stock market index future
Futures exchange
Option markets and contracts
Options
Stock option
Box spread
Call option
Put option
Strike price
Put-call parity
The Greeks
Black–Scholes formula
Black model
Binomial options model
Implied volatility
Option time value
Moneyness
At-the-money
In-the-money
Out-of-the-money
Straddle
Option style
Vanilla option
Exotic option
Binary option
European option
Interest rate floor
Interest rate cap
Bermudan option
American option
Quanto option
Asian option
Employee stock option
Warrants
Foreign exchange option
Interest rate options
Bond options
Real options
Options on futures
Swap markets and contracts
Swap (finance)
Interest rate swap
Basis swap
Asset swap
Forex swap
Stock swap
Equity swaps
Currency swap
Variance swap
see: Swap (finance)
Equity derivatives
Contract for difference (CFD)
Exchange-traded fund (ETF)
Closed-end fund
Inverse exchange-traded fund
Equity options
Equity swap
Real estate investment trust (REIT)
Warrants
Covered warrant
Interest rate derivatives
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
Credit derivatives
Credit default swap
Collateralized debt obligation
Credit default option
Total return swap
Securitization
Foreign exchange derivative
Foreign exchange option
Currency future
Forex swap
Foreign exchange hedge
Binary option: Foreign exchange
Corporate governance
Financial regulation
Bank regulation
Banking license
License
Designations and accreditation
Certified Financial Planner
Chartered Financial Analyst
CFA Institute
Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst
Professional Risk Manager
Chartered Financial Consultant
Canadian Securities Institute
Independent Financial Adviser
Chartered Insurance Institute
Financial Risk Manager
Chartered Accountant
Liabilities Subject to Compromise
Forex scam
Insider trading
Legal origins theory
Petition mill
Ponzi scheme
International Swaps and Derivatives Association
National Association of Securities Dealers
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
European Securities Committee (EU)
Committee of European Securities Regulators (EU)
United Kingdom
Financial Services Authority
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
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
Actuarial topics
Real Estate
Securities
Commodities
Futures
Cash
Debt
Factors
Securities
Initial public offering
Value (economics)
Fair value
Intrinsic value
"The Theory of Investment Value"
Tax amortization benefit
Cash flow
Operating cash flow
Time value of money
Present value
Future value
Actualization
Discounting
Bond valuation
Yield to maturity
Duration
Convexity
Clean price
Dirty price
Equity valuation
Equivalent Annual Cost
Net present value
Discount rate
Capital Asset Pricing Model
Arbitrage pricing theory
Cost of capital
Weighted average cost of capital
Fundamental analysis
Stock valuation
Business valuation
The investment decision
Dividend discount model
Market value added / Economic value added
Adjusted present value
Residual Income Valuation
Real estate
Real estate pricing
Real estate economics
Real estate appraisal
Dividend yield
Financial ratio
Market-based valuation
PE ratio
Relative valuation
Stock image
Stock profile
See derivatives pricing below.
Straight Through Processing Software
Technical Analysis Software
Algorithmic trading
List of numerical analysis software
Comparison of numerical analysis software
Financial institutions
Bank
List of banks
List of banks in the Arab World
List of banks in Africa
List of banks in the Americas
List of banks in Asia
List of banks in Europe
List of banks in Oceania
List of international banking institutions
Advising bank
Central bank
List of central banks
Commercial bank
Community development bank
Cooperative bank
Custodian bank
Depository bank
Ethical bank
Investment bank
Islamic banking
Merchant bank
Microcredit
Mutual savings bank
National bank
Offshore bank
Private bank
Savings bank
Swiss bank
Bank holding company
Building society
Broker
Broker-dealer
Brokerage firm
Commodity broker
Insurance broker
Investment broker
Online broker
Options broker
Prime brokerage
Retail broker
Stockbroker
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
List of futures exchanges
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
List of stock exchanges
Trust company
Index of accounting articles
Outline of business management
Outline of marketing
Outline of economics
Outline of production
List of international trade topics
List of business law topics
List of business theorists
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