finance
Back with money
Finance is the management of money—how individuals, businesses, and governments raise it, spend it, invest it, and account for it.
The field encompasses banking, investing, lending, and budgeting.
As a verb, to finance something is to provide the money for it: We financed the car over five years.
Personal finance concerns individual money management; corporate finance deals with business capital decisions.
Place holding deposits
- loanBorrowed money repaid later
- mortgageSecured home loan
- depositPlace for safekeeping
- withdrawalAct of taking away
account · interest · credit · debit · teller · ATM · branch · overdraft
Accumulated money kept
- retirementLeaving the workforce permanently
- emergency fundReserve for unexpected expenses
- nest eggSaved money for later
- 401kEmployer-sponsored retirement savings
IRA · pension · debt · credit score · insurance · tax return · will · estate planning
Goods kept for sale
- bondBinding tie or connection
- portfolioCollected works or assets
- dividendCorporate profit share
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
securities · broker · trading · shares · mutual fund · hedge fund · derivatives · commodities
Owned items of value
- net worthAssets less debts
- affluenceAbundance of money
- fortuneWealth or destiny
- prosperityGood fortune, success
inheritance · estate · portfolio · millionaire · billionaire · tycoon · magnate · trust fund
Sustained price level increase
- deflationSustained decrease in prices
- GDPNational output abbreviation
- recessionProlonged economic decline
- monetary policyCentral bank economic controls
fiscal policy · interest rates · macroeconomics · microeconomics · supply and demand · trade · exchange rate · central bank
Financial records keeper
- bookkeepingRecording financial transactions systematically
- ledgerFinancial record book
- auditFormal accounts examination
- CPALicensed accounting professional
reconciliation · controller · accounts receivable · accounts payable · balance sheet · depreciation · amortization · accrual
Plan for spending
- expensesMoney spent on things
- incomeRegular monetary receipts
- revenueBusiness income total
- forecastingEstimating future conditions
allocation · spreadsheet · costs · cashflow · surplus · deficit · tracking · variance
bank
Place holding deposits
withdrawal · account · interest · credit · debit · teller · ATM · branch · overdraft · cheque
savings
Accumulated money kept
- retirementLeaving the workforce permanently
- emergency fundReserve for unexpected expenses
- nest eggSaved money for later
401k · IRA · pension · debt · credit score · insurance · tax return · will · estate planning · college fund
stock
Goods kept for sale
equity · securities · broker · trading · shares · mutual fund · hedge fund · derivatives · commodities · futures
assets
Owned items of value
prosperity · inheritance · estate · portfolio · millionaire · billionaire · tycoon · magnate · trust fund · endowment
inflation
Sustained price level increase
- deflationSustained decrease in prices
- GDPNational output abbreviation
- recessionProlonged economic decline
monetary policy · fiscal policy · interest rates · macroeconomics · microeconomics · supply and demand · trade · exchange rate · central bank · Federal Reserve
accountant
Financial records keeper
- bookkeepingRecording financial transactions systematically
- ledgerFinancial record book
- auditFormal accounts examination
CPA · reconciliation · controller · accounts receivable · accounts payable · balance sheet · depreciation · amortization · accrual · journal entry
budget
Plan for spending
forecasting · allocation · spreadsheet · costs · cashflow · surplus · deficit · tracking · variance · estimates
- careersdoctor, lawyer, teacher, engineer, nurse
- academic fieldsmathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, history
- economicssupply and demand, inflation, GDP, GNP, gross domestic product
- industriesbusiness, factories, education, health, supply chain
- nonfiction genresbiography, memoir, autobiography, history, science
- personal financesavings, income, credit, investments, bills
financedefund
Remove financial support
divest · defunding · disendow · refuse · discourage
financebarter
Direct goods-for-goods exchange
subsistence · gift economy · subsist · self-sufficiency · direct exchange
- financial aidFunding for education expenses
- financial recoveryReturn to economic health
- financial protectionSafeguard against monetary loss
- financial crisisSevere economic system breakdown
- financial collapseCatastrophic failure of markets
- finance chargeCost of borrowing money
finances, financial, financing, financed, financier, financially, financiers, refinance, nonfinancial