Finance

1. Noun.

The practice and theory of managing money.

2. Verb.

To provide or to obtain funds, capital or credit.

3. Capital and projects.

Capital loaned or provided for a particular purpose, especially that which has to be raised to start a new project.

4. Organisational structure.

The corporate function which deals with an organisation's own money.

Contrasted with the firm's operations, which are essentially everything else (viewed from the perspective of a finance person).

See also

• Accommodation finance
• Account
• Alternative Credit Council (ACC)
• Alternative finance
• An introduction to loan finance
• Asset finance
• Bank finance
• Capital
• Casino finance
• Centralised finance
• Channel finance
• Climate finance
• Commercial finance
• Commodity finance
• Corporate
• Corporate finance
• Credit
• Decentralised finance
• Development finance institution (DFI)
• Distributor finance
• Economics
• Embedded finance
• Export finance
• Finance Act
• Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking
• Finance charge
• Finance Director
• Finance lease
• Finance party
• Finance vehicle
• Finance transformation
• Financial
• Financial reporting
• Financing
• Floor plan finance
• Funds
• Gender and diversity finance
• Green finance
• Institute of International Finance
• Invoice finance
• IP finance
• Islamic finance
• Khaki finance
• Leveraged finance
• Loan
• Money
• Non recourse finance
• Off balance sheet finance
• Operations
• Organisation
• Packing finance
• Payables finance
• Post-shipment finance
• Pre-export finance
• Pre-shipment finance
• Project finance
• Quantitative finance
• Receivables finance
• Recourse finance
• Sharia-compliant finance
• Structured finance
• Supply chain finance
• Sustainable finance
• Trade finance
• Transition finance
• Treasury
• UK Finance
• Vendor finance
• Warehouse finance