The following
outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to finance:
Finance – addresses the ways in which individuals and organizations raise and allocate monetary
resources over time, taking into account the
risks entailed in their projects.
Overview
The term finance may incorporate any of the following:
This section is corporate-finance-focused: for the valuation of derivatives and interest rate / fixed income instruments see
§ Derivatives pricing; for the economic theory see
§ Asset pricing theory.
Business education lists
undergraduate degrees in business, commerce, accounting and economics; "finance" may be taken as a
major in most of these, whereas "quantitative finance" is almost invariably postgraduate, following a
math-focused Bachelors; the most common degrees for (entry level) investment, banking, and corporate roles are:
quants often enter the profession with
PhDs in disciplines such as physics, mathematics, engineering, and computer science, and learn finance "on the job”
The following
outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to finance:
Finance – addresses the ways in which individuals and organizations raise and allocate monetary
resources over time, taking into account the
risks entailed in their projects.
Overview
The term finance may incorporate any of the following:
This section is corporate-finance-focused: for the valuation of derivatives and interest rate / fixed income instruments see
§ Derivatives pricing; for the economic theory see
§ Asset pricing theory.
Business education lists
undergraduate degrees in business, commerce, accounting and economics; "finance" may be taken as a
major in most of these, whereas "quantitative finance" is almost invariably postgraduate, following a
math-focused Bachelors; the most common degrees for (entry level) investment, banking, and corporate roles are:
quants often enter the profession with
PhDs in disciplines such as physics, mathematics, engineering, and computer science, and learn finance "on the job”