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| ''Financial accounting''.
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| Money the business owes the owner.
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| This is equal to assets minus liabilities (including debt).
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| In other words, the equity.
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| ''Corporate finance''.
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| More broadly in the corporate finance context, 'capital' is the total amount of funding available for the operations of a firm.
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| This would include both its debt and its equity.
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| ''Company law''.
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| More narrowly in company law, 'capital' is the component of the total equity represented by the share capital of the company.
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| ''Regulation''.
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| In the regulatory capital context, 'capital' means what the particular regulations say that it means.
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| Here as elsewhere, care and consistency in definitions is essential.
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| ''Economics''.
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| 'Capital' is one of the 'factors of production' in economics, the others classically being labour, land and enterprise.
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| In this context, 'capital' refers to the things that have been created to help in the production process, like machinery, factories and transport facilities.
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| == See also == | | == See also == |
| * [[Assets]] | | * [[Float]] |
| * [[Capital adequacy]] | | * [[Premium]] |
| * [[Capital intensity]]
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| * [[Capital mobility]]
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| * [[Capital structure]]
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| * [[Capital to labour ratio]]
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| * [[Capitalisation]]
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| * [[Cost of capital]]
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| * [[Credit balance]]
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| * [[Debt capital]]
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| * [[Enterprise]]
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| * [[Equity cost of capital]]
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| * [[Factors of production]]
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| * [[Finance ]]
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| * [[Investment bank]]
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| * [[Labour]]
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| * [[Land]]
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| * [[Liabilities]]
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| * [[Regulatory capital]]
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| * [[Share capital]]
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| * [[Working capital]]
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| [[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
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| [[Category:Compliance_and_audit]]
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