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What are the four main areas of finance?

Asked by Mehtajimmit, Last updated: Apr 16, 2024

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J. Alfie

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J. Alfie, Content Writer, Masters in Literature, Dallas,Texas

Answered Dec 15, 2020

The four main areas of finance include corporate finance, investment, financial institutions and markets, and international finance. Financial management is the process for and analysis of making financial decisions in the business context. Finance encompasses banking, leverage, or debit credit.

The basic financial concepts are based on micro and macroeconomics theories. The finance field includes three main subcategories personal finance, corporate finance, and public finance.

These four areas of finance have helped and also enhanced a lot of business owners to understand the way their business finance. These areas are considered for business and can also change as time goes by.

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Answered Nov 30, 2020

There are a lot of business owners who are still holding on to their tried and tested ways without realizing that times have changed greatly over the past decades. There are things that still work the same. There are still methods that may be considered great for business but there are also some changes that can help improve the business in an awesome manner.

There are some socially conservative ideas that are available at present time and may work well but they are not always effective right now. Get to know more methods that can further improve business and it might become more useful.

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M. Klose

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Answered Sep 25, 2018

When you have to incorporate a matching strategy, there are certain rules and regulation that you have to follow. In this case, it is not true that all assets should be financed with permanent long term capital. In fact, assets can actually be split into long term permanent, current or temporary. In order to create a matching strategy, you must match the assets to liabilities.

These are done with respect to the maturity and permance. Hence, it is evident that the temporary current assets include the finance from sources including temporary short-term finance. These include the current accounts of different users.

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mehtajimmit

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Answered Mar 28, 2018

All assets should be financed with permanent long term capital.

Assets can be split into long term permanent, current, and temporary. A matching strategy would be to match assets to liabilities in terms of maturity and permance. Thus temporary current assets would be finance from temporary short-term finance such as the current account.*##**##*
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