List of 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). If you add an article to either list, please add it to both.

Table of contents

1 Fundamental financial concepts 2 Accounting (financial records) 3 Institutional setting 3.1 Financial institutions and banking 3.2 Financial supervision, regulation, and accreditation 4 Financial markets and instruments 4.3 Commodity markets 4.4 Stock market 4.5 Bond market 4.6 Money market 4.7 Derivatives market 5 Valuation 6 Corporate finance 7 Investment management 8 Personal finance 9 Public finance 10 Insurance 11 Economics and finance 12 Mathematics and finance 13 Constraint finance 14 Virtual finance 15 The History of finance 16 Financial software tools 17 Finding related topics

Fundamental financial concepts

• Finance an overview
  • Annuity
  • Arbitrage
  • Capital (economics)
  • Capital asset pricing model
  • Cash flow
  • Cash flow matching
  • Debt
    • default
  • Discounted cash flow
  • Financial capital
  • Entrepreneur
  • 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
  • Investment
    • Foreign direct investment
  • Leverage
  • Locked-in value
  • 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
  • Standard of deferred payment
  • Store of value
  • Time horizon
  • Time value of money
    • Discounting
    • Present value
    • Future value
    • Discounting
    • Net present value
    • Internal rate of return
    • Annuity
    • Perpetuity
  • Unit of account
  • Volatility
  • Yield
  • Yield curve

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

Financial institutions and banking

• Financial institutions
  • 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
  • Credit rating agency
  • Loan
    • Pre-qualification
    • Pre-approval

• Financial supervision
  • Banking license
  • Glass-Steagall Act (US)
  • Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (US)
  • Sarbanes-Oxley Act (US)
  • Securities Act of 1933 (US)
  • Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (US)
• Regulatory bodies
  • Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  • National Association of Securities Dealers
  • Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board
• Corporate governance
• Insider trading
• Ponzi scheme
• Financial designations and accreditation
  • Certified Financial Planner
  • Chartered Financial Analyst Exam (CFA)
  • Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC)
• International Swaps & Derivatives Association;

• 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 markets

• Commodity
  • List of traded commodities
  • Fungibility

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
  • 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
  • Technical analysis
    • Chart patterns
    • Dow Theory
    • Elliott Wave Theory
  • List of stock exchanges
  • List of stock market indices

• Bonds
  • zero-coupon bond
  • junk bonds
  • convertible bond
  • accrual bond
  • debenture
  • municipal bond
  • sovereign bond
• Bond valuation
• 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
  • 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 swap
• Swaption
• Interest rate linked derivatives:
  • Financial future
  • LIBOR
  • BBA LIBOR
  • Forward rate agreement
  • Interest rate swap
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