Look up: Finance

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   Finance
   A discipline concerned with determining value and making decisions. The finance function allocates resources, which includes acquiring, investing, and managing resources.
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   finance
   [Noun] Plural form: finances. The money or loans used to pay for something. It can also mean the management of money or loans.
   Example: My finances have improved since I started working.
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   finance
   [n] - the branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets 2. [n] - the management of money and credit and banking and investments 3. [n] - the commercial activity of providing funds and capital 4. [v] - sell or provide on credit 5. [v] - obtain or provide money for
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   Finance
   Finance relates to any monetary aspect of a business. For a small business this primarily relates to Invoices and received payments, and receipts and expeniture payments. All business, by definition, are there to make money, and therefore the finance aspect of a business is at its core. It is therefore essential that a business is in full control o...
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   finance
   a government paper submitted to the UK Parliament for approval covering amendments to existing tax laws and proposals for new taxes Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs • a company, usually part of a commercial bank, which buys goods or equipment which it then hires or leases to companies or individuals Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs • a lease ...
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   Finance
   Fi·nance' noun [ French, from Late Latin financia payment of money, money, from finare to pay a fine or subsidy (cf. Old French finer to finish, pay), from Latin finis end. See Fine , noun , Finish .] 1. The income of a ruler or of a state; revenue; public money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used in the plur ...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/30
   
   
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   Finance
   Fi·nance' transitive verb & i. [ imperfect & past participle Financed ; present participle & verbal noun Financing .] To conduct the finances of; to provide for, and manage, the capital for; to financier. « Securing foreign capital to finance multitudinous undertakings.» B. H. Chamberlain.
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   finance
   noun the commercial activity of providing funds and capital
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   finance
   noun the branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets
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    finance
    verb obtain or provide money for; `Can we finance the addition to our home?`
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    Finance
    A discipline concerned with determining value and making decisions. The finance function allocates resources, including the acquiring, investing, and managing of resources.
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    Finance
    `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 term `finance` may thus incorporate any of the following: * The study of money and other assets; * The management and control of those assets; * Profiling and managing project risks; * The science of managing money; * As a verb, `to finance...
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    finance
    The study of securities, borrowing, and ownership. Relevant terms: abnormal returns, absolute risk aversion, AGI, Annuity formula, APT, ARCH, Arrow-Pratt measure, asset pricing models, asset-pricing function, basis point, Black-Scholes equation, bubble, call option, capital structure, CAPM, CAR, CARs, CCAPM, CDE, certainty equivalence principle, ce...
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    Finance
    • (n.) The science of raising and expending the public revenue. • (n.) The income of a ruler or of a state; revennue; public money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used in the plural for funds; available money; resources. • (v. t. & i.) To conduct the finances of; to provide for, and manage, the capital for; to financie...
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    finance
    the process of raising funds or capital for any kind of expenditure. Consumers, business firms, and governments often do not have the funds ... [1 related articles]
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    finance
    finance Related 'end' units: term-, ultim-.
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    finance
    finance, theory and practice of conducting large public and private dealings in money. Important institutions of private finance include those that deal with insurance, banking, stocks (see stock), bonds, and other securities. With the development of the national state, public finance—the mana...
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