Outline of corporate finance
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to corporate finance:

Corporate finance is the area of finance that deals with the sources of funding, and the capital structure of corporations, the actions that managers take to increase the value of the firm to the shareholders, and the tools and analysis used to allocate financial resources.

For finance in general, see Outline of finance.

Overview 
 Critical accounting policy
 Gross margin
 Stakeholder (corporate)
 Yield (finance)
 Inverted yield curve

Aspects 
 Corporate action
 Corporate capitalism
 Corporate donations
 Corporate responsibility
 Corporate sustainability
 Corporate tax
 Franchise tax
 Corporate taxonomy
 Corporate trust

Concepts 
 Arbitrage
 Beta (finance)
 Earnings at risk
 Financial engineering
 Fundamental analysis
 Going concern
 Scenario analysis
 Short-rate model
 Spread trade

Models 
 Bayes theorem
 Black-Scholes model
 Dividend discount model
 Generalized gaussian distribution
 Linear algebra
 Marginal utility
 Money flow index
 Stock market index

Strategy 
 Asset stripping
 Diversification (marketing strategy)
 Embedded option
 Option-adjusted spread
 Management buy-in
 Public offering without listing
 Rebalancing investments

Operations 
 Captive insurance
 Cost of equity
 Financial management
 Capital management
 Consignment
 Flag of convenience
 Operational due diligence (alternative investments)

Ratios 

 Capitalization rate
 Effective interest rate
 Incremental capital-output ratio
 Loan-to-value ratio
 Operating ratio
 P/B ratio

Capital 

 Abnormal return
 Capital budgeting
 Accounting rate of return
 Internal rate of return
 Capital structure
 Liquid capital
 Money
 Venture capital
 Working capital

Entities 

 Benefit corporation
 Flow-through entity
 Limited Liability Partnership (LLP)
 Offshore company
 Shell corporation
 Yield co

Assets 

 Accounts receivable
 Receivables turnover ratio
 Capital asset
 Complementary assets
 Factoring (finance)
 Fixed asset
 Accelerated depreciation
 Fixed assets management
 Fixed asset register
 Intangible asset
 Goodwill (accounting)
 Intellectual property
 Patent

Liabilities 

 Accounts payable
 Credit

Loans 

 Back-to-back loan
 Business loan
 Bond (finance)
 Equated monthly installment
 In-house lending
 Loan covenant
 Cov-lite
 Shareholder loan

Development 

Business valuation
 Net present value
 Sum-of-the-parts analysis
 Buyout
 Dividend
 Common stock dividend
 Dividend reinvestment plan
 Dividend policy
 Leverage (finance)
 Mergers and acquisitions
 Consolidation (business)
 Research and development

Liquidations 

 Anti-deprivation rule
 Liquidation
 General assignment
 Qualifying floating charge

Subtypes 
 Carbon finance
 Carbon accounting
 Commercial finance
 Social finance
 Structured finance
 Supply chain finance

Investment 

 Active management
 Clientele effect
 Disclosed fees
 Immunization (finance)
 Income trust
 Lead arranger
 Liquid alternative investment
 Portfolio (finance)
 Portfolio optimization
 Real options valuation
 Return (finance)

Funds 

 Interest
 Interest rate
 Investment fund
 Mutual fund
 Stock fund

Shares 

 Common stock
 Differential voting right shares
 Earnings per share
 Earnings call
 Golden share
 High-yield stock
 Issued shares
 Equity issuance
 Leading stock
 Monthly income preferred stock
 Non-voting stock
 Participating preferred stock
 Preferred stock
 Registered share
 Secondary shares
 Stock exchange

Theory

 Fisher separation theorem
 Modigliani–Miller theorem
 Theory of the firm
 The Theory of Investment Value
 Agency theory
 Capital structure
 
 Capital structure substitution theory
 Pecking order theory
 Market timing hypothesis
 Trade-off theory of capital structure
 Merton model
 Tax shield
 Dividend policy
 
 Walter model
 Gordon model
 Lintner model
 Residuals theory
 Clientele effect
 Dividend puzzle
 
 Dividend tax
 Capital budgeting (valuation)
 
 Clean surplus accounting
 Residual income valuation
 Economic value added / Market value added
 T-model
 Adjusted present value
 Uncertainty
 Penalized present value
 Expected commercial value
 Risk-adjusted net present value
 Contingent claim valuation
 Real options
 Monte Carlo methods
 Risk management
 
 
 Hedging irrelevance proposition
 Risk modeling
 Risk-adjusted return on capital

Related lists 
 Index of accounting articles
 Index of economics articles
 Index of international trade articles
 Outline of actuarial science
 Outline of business
 Outline of civil law (common law)
 Outline of organizational theory

See also 
 Financial statements
 Initial public offering
 Investment strategy
 Leprechaun economics

References

External links 

Corporate Finance Definition and Activities, Investopedia
 Corporate Finance Overview, Corporate Finance Institute

 
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