Finance

1. The practice and theory of managing money.
2. To provide or to obtain funds, capital or credit.
3. The capital loaned for a particular purpose, especially that which has to be raised to start a new project.
4. The corporate function which deals with a firm's money.
5. The part of a non-financial firm's activities which deal with the firm's own money. Contrasted with the operations of the firm, which are essentially everything else.

See also

• Capital
• Credit
• Money