List of finance topics - Definition

What follows is a list of over 250 Wikipedia articles on finance topics.

This list is an attempt to categorize all financial topics. An alphabetical listing of finance topics can be found at List of finance topics (alphabetical).

Fundamental financial concepts

• Finance an overview
  • Arbitrage
  • Capital (economics)
  • Capital asset pricing model
  • Cash flow
  • Cash flow matching
  • Debt
    • Default
  • Discounted cash flow
  • Financial capital
    • Funding
  • Entrepreneur
    • Entrepreneurship
  • Fixed income analysis
  • Gap financing
  • Hedging
    • Hedge
    • Hedger
  • Interest rate
    • Risk free interest rate
    • Term structure of interest rates
    • interest
    • effective interest rate
    • nominal interest rate
    • interest rate basis
    • Fisher equation
    • Crowding Out
    • annual percentage rate
  • Investment
    • Foreign direct investment
    • Over-investing
  • Leverage
  • Locked-in value
  • Long
  • Liquidity
  • Margin account
  • Margin call
  • Mark to future
  • Mark to market
  • Market Impact
  • Medium of exchange
  • Money
    • coin
    • banknote
    • counterfeit
  • Portfolio
    • Modern portfolio theory
  • Reference rate
    • Reset
  • Risk
    • Value at Risk
    • Risk management
  • Scenario analysis
  • Short selling
  • Speculation
    • Day trading
  • Position trader
  • Spread
  • 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
    • Annuity
    • Perpetuity
  • Unit of account
  • Volatility
  • Yield
  • Yield curve

Accounting (financial records)

• Accounting
• List of accounting topics
• Financial accountancy
  • Financial statements
    • Balance sheet
    • Cash flow statement
    • Income statement
• Auditing
• Management accounting

Institutional setting

Financial institutions and banking

• Financial institutions
  • Bank
    • Commercial bank
    • Investment bank
    • merchant bank
    • private bank
    • offshore bank
    • Anonymous banking
    • List of banks
    • Automatic teller machine
  • Non-bank
  • Venture capitalist
    • Angel investors
  • Islamic bank
  • Pension fund
  • SWIFT
  • Insurance
  • Stock broker
  • Deposit
  • Deposit creation multiplier
  • Credit rating agency
  • Loan
    • Pre-qualification
    • Pre-approval

Financial supervision, regulation, and accreditation

• Financial designations and accreditation
  • Certified Financial Planner
  • Chartered Financial Analyst Exam (CFA)
  • Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC)
  • Canadian Securities Institute

• Financial regulatory bodies
  • Bank for International Settlements
  • Canadian securities regulation
  • Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  • Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board
  • National Association of Securities Dealers
  • Securities and Exchange Commission

• Financial supervision
  • Bank regulation
  • Banking license
  • International Swaps & Derivatives Association
  • Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

• Finance regulation
  • 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)

• Corporate governance
• Insider trading
• Legal Origins Theory
• PATRIOT
• Ponzi scheme

Financial markets and instruments

• Capital markets
• Securities
• Financial markets
  • Primary market
    • Initial public offering
  • Aftermarket
  • Free market
  • Behavioral finance
  • Efficient market hypothesis
  • Bull market
  • Bear market
    • Bear market rally
  • Market maker

Commodity market

• Commodity
  • Asset
  • Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  • Day trading
  • Drawdowns
  • Fundamental analysis
  • Futures
  • Futures contract
  • Fungibility
  • Hedging
  • Initial margin
  • Jesse Lauriston Livermore
  • List of traded commodities
  • Long
  • MACD
  • Margin
  • Maintenance margin
  • Margin account
  • Margin call
  • Ownership equity
  • Position trader
  • Risk (Futures)
  • Seasonal traders
  • Seasonal spread trading
  • Short
  • Slippage
  • Speculation
  • Spread
  • Technical analysis
    • Breakout
    • Bear market
    • Bottom (technical analysis)
    • Bull market
    • Lane’s Stochastics
    • Moving average
    • Open Interest
    • Parabolic SAR
    • Point and figure charts
    • Resistance
    • RSI
    • Stop loss
    • Support
    • Top (technical analysis)
  • Trade
  • Trend

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
  • PE Ratio or P/E
  • Price-to-earnings ratio (separate from previous article)
  • Market capitalization
  • Income per share
  • Stock valuation
  • Growth stock
  • economic value added
  • mergers and acquisitions
    • leveraged buyout
    • takeover
    • corporate raid
  • Dow Jones Industrial Average
  • Nasdaq
  • Stock market crash
  • Stock market bubble
  • January effect
    • Mark Twain effect
  • Technical analysis
    • Chart patterns
    • Dow Theory
    • Elliott Wave Theory
  • List of stock exchanges
  • List of stock market indices
  • V-trend

Bond market

• Bonds
  • zero-coupon bond
  • junk bonds
  • convertible bond
  • accrual bond
  • debenture
  • municipal bond
  • sovereign bond
• Bond valuation
  • Yield to maturity
  • Duration
  • convexity

• Fixed income

Money market

• Repurchase agreements
• International Money Market
  • Currency
  • Exchange rate
  • International currency codes
  • Table of historical exchange rates

Derivatives market

• Derivative security
• (see also Financial mathematics topics; Derivatives pricing)
• Underlying instrument
• Equity derivative
• Forward contract
• Futures contract
  • Financial futures
    • Currency Future
    • Interest Rate Future
  • Futures exchange
• Options
  • Stock option
    • 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
  • Stock swap

• Interest rate derivatives:
  • Financial future
  • LIBOR
  • BBA LIBOR
  • Forward rate agreement
  • Interest rate swap
  • Interest rate cap
  • Exotic interest rate option
  • Interest rate swap
    • Swaption

• Credit derivatives
  • Credit default swap
  • Collateralised Debt Obligation
  • Credit default option
  • Total return swap

Valuation

• Fair value

Discounted cash flow valuation

• Cash flow
• Time value of money
  • Present value
  • Future value
  • Actualization
  • Discounting
• Bond valuation
  • Yield to maturity
  • Duration
  • Convexity
• Equity valuation
  • Net present value
  • Discount rate
    • Capital Asset Pricing Model
    • Cost of capital
    • Weighted average cost of capital
  • Fundamental analysis
  • Stock valuation
  • Business valuation
  • The investment decision

Relative valuation

• Dividend yield
• Financial ratio
• Market-based valuation
• PE Ratio or P/E
• Stock image
• Stock profile

Contingent claim valuation

• Rational pricing assumptions
  • Risk neutral valuation
  • Arbitrage free pricing
• Derivatives pricing
  • Futures
    • Futures contract Pricing
  • Options (and Real options)
    • Black-Scholes formula
    • Black model
    • Binomial options model
  • Short-rate modelling
    • Hull-White model
• List of finance topics#derivatives pricing

Corporate finance

• Corporate finance
  • Balance sheet analysis (Ratio Analysis)
  • Business plan
  • Capital investment decisions
    • The investment decision
      • Business valuation
      • Stock valuation
      • Fundamental analysis
      • Real options
      • Valuation topics
      • Fisher separation theorem
    • The financing decision
      • Cost of capital
      • Weighted average cost of capital
      • Modigliani-Miller theorem
    • The dividend decision
      • Dividend
      • Dividend tax
      • Dividend yield
      • Modigliani-Miller theorem
  • Corporate action
  • Managerial finance
    • Management accounting
  • Mergers and acquisitions
    • leveraged buyout
    • takeover
    • corporate raid
  • Real options
  • Return on investment
    • Return on assets
    • Return on equity
    • Return on capital
  • Working capital management
    • cash conversion cycle

Investment management

• Fund management
  • Modern portfolio theory
  • Portfolio
  • Capital asset pricing model
  • 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
  • Hedging
    • Hedge
    • Hedger

Personal finance

• Personal finance
  • 529 plan (college savings)
  • Credit & Debt
    • Credit card
    • Credit repair
    • Debt consolidation
    • Mortgage
  • Debit card
  • Direct deposit
  • Education Savings Account (ESA's, FKA Education IRA's)
  • Employment contract
    • Commission
    • Employee stock option
    • Fringe benefit
    • Health insurance
    • Salary
    • Wage
  • Social security
  • Insurance
  • Paycheck
  • Predatory lending
  • Retirement plan
    • 401(a)
    • 401(k)
    • 403(b)
    • 457 plan
    • Individual Retirement Account
      • Roth IRA
      • Traditional IRA
      • SEP IRA
      • SIMPLE IRA
      • Conduit IRA
    • Pension
  • Tax advantage
  • Wealth

Public finance

• Public finance
  • Central bank
  • Federal Reserve
  • Fractional-reserve banking
    • Deposit creation multiplier
  • Tax
    • Income tax
    • Payroll tax
    • Sales tax
    • Tax advantage
    • Tax, tariff and trade
  • crowding out
  • industrial policy
  • agricultural policy
  • currency union
  • monetary reform

Insurance

• Actuarial science
• Annuities
• Insurable risk
• Insurance
  • Health insurance
    • Disability insurance
    • 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
    • Earthquake insurance
    • Home insurance
    • Title insurance
  • Casualty insurance
    • Business continuation insurance
    • Fidelity bond
    • Liability insurance
      • Personal umbrella liability policy
      • Commercial general liability policy
    • Political risk insurance
    • Surety bond
    • Terrorism insurance
  • Credit insurance
  • Reinsurance
  • Self insurance
• Insurance contract

Economics and finance

• Economic growth
• Financial economics
• Mathematical economics
• Managerial economics

Mathematics and finance

Time value of money

• Present value
• Future value
• Discounting
• Net present value
• Internal rate of return
• Annuity
• Perpetuity

Financial mathematics

Mathematical tools

• Probability
• Probability distribution
  • Binomial distribution
  • Log-normal distribution
• Expected value
• Value at risk
• Risk-neutral measure
• Stochastic calculus
• Brownian motion
• Itô's lemma
• Girsanov's theorem
• Radon-Nikodym derivative
• Monte Carlo methods in finance
• Partial differential equations
  • Heat equation
• Martingale representation theorem
• Feynman-Kac formula
• Dynkin formula
• Stochastic differential equations
• Volatility
  • ARCH model
  • GARCH model
• Mathematical model
• Numerical method

Derivatives pricing

• Rational pricing assumptions
  • Risk neutral valuation
  • Arbitrage free pricing
• Futures
  • Futures contract pricing
• Options
  • Black-Scholes formula
  • Black model
  • Binomial options model
  • Implied volatility
  • Historical volatility
  • The Greeks
• Interest rate derivatives
  • Short rate model
    • Hull-White model
  • Brace-Gatarek-Musiela model
  • Heath-Jarrow-Morton framework

Constraint finance

• Creditary economics
• Environmental finance
• Feminist economics
• Green economics
• Islamic economics
• Uneconomic growth
• Value of Earth
• Value of life

Virtual finance

• Virtual finance

The History of finance

• Tulipomania 1620s
• South Sea Bubble 1710s
• Panic of 1837
• Railway mania 1840s
• Long Depression 1873 to 1896
• Post-WWI hyperinflation
• Wall Street Crash 1929
• Great Depression 1930s
• Oil Shock 1973
• 1979 energy crisis
• Black Monday 1987
• Asian financial crisis 1990s
• Stock market downturn of 2002

Financial software tools

• Finance Software
  • Quantitative Analysis Software
    • Fundamental Analysis Software
    • Technical Analysis Software
      • TradeStation
      • MATLAB
      • Excel
    • Stock image coefficient

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• list of business ethics, political economy, and philosophy of business topics
• list of business theorists
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• list of corporate leaders
• list of companies

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