Financial Terms and Roles Stephani Calabrese February 10, 2014 FIN/370 Matthew Tanzer Financial Terms and Roles Create a list of definitions for the following terms and identify their roles in finance. Finance: Finance or financing is the study of how people/businesses evaluate investments, raising money for the investments. Finance is a broad word with many facets. When reading the chapters I recognize finance as a learned talent. Knowing when to invest, strive ahead, or taking a chance
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Financial Terms and Roles Katie Bradbury FIN/370 July 1, 2013 Derek Webster “Finance is the study of how people and businesses evaluate investments and raise capital to fund them” (Mayo, 2012). Finance is the practice of generating, moving and using currency, allowing the flow of money through a business in the same way of the money flow throughout the world. Efficient market is a market that holds all relevant information to contributors under the same roof, and where prices react
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Financial Terms and Roles FIN/370 Vicky Tillman June 15, 2013 Financial Terms and Roles Create a list of definitions for the following terms and identify their roles in finance. 1. Finance- The study how people and business evaluate investments and reuse capital to fund them. 2. Efficient Market- Market where all pertinent information is available to all participants at the same time and where prices respond immediately to available information.
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Financial Terms and Roles · Finance -- The science of the management of money and other assets. · Efficient market – A market in which prices correctly reflect all relevant information. · Primary market – This is part of the capital market that deals with issuing of new securities. · Secondary market – This part also called the aftermarket, is the financial market in which previously issued financial instruments such as stock, bonds, options
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Financial Terms and Roles Alvaro Garcia Jr. FIN/370 August 19, 2013 Dr. Rachel Ang Finance – Individuals and businesses evaluate investments and raise capital to fund them. Understanding and having knowledge of finance will benefit both personal and professional life. Efficient market – Investors respond to new information buying and selling their investments the speed with which investors act and the way that prices respond to the information determine the efficiency of the market. Primary
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Financial Terms and Roles Name FIN/370 Date Instructor Financial Terms and Roles 1. Finance: Finance is basically the source used to obtain currency. For example, if one wanted to buy a house and they borrowed from the bank, the bank is the form of finance and the cash is the currency. Its role in finance provides the source of where one received money to make purchases. 2. Efficient Market: This is a term to hypothesize that the prices current in the market are honest/fair. These
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Financial Terms and Roles Finance: is when we study how organizations and individuals evaluate investments and how they choose to fund them. Efficient market: An efficient market is like a perfect competition in that the information is available to everyone and the prices change as new information is presented immediately. One example of a efficient market would be the stock market like the NASDAQ as it presents the information electronically to everyone immediately. Primary market: A Primary
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Financial Terms and Roles * Financial Terms * * Finance- the study of how people and businesses evaluate investments and raise capital to fund them Efficient market-Market where all pertinent information is available to all participants at the same time, and where prices respond immediately to available information. Primary market- a market in which new, as opposed to previously issued, securities are bought and sold for the first time Secondary market- where all subsequent
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Financial Terms and Roles FIN 370 Financial Terms and Roles 1) Finance – is the resource from which cash is made from liabilities and owner’s equity. There are two different types of financing, short term and long term financing. Short term financing is when you borrow cash for less than a year, and long term is borrowing for more than a year. 2) Efficient Market – This means that it can be hypothesized that prices can prevail in a market that is assumed to always be fair.
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Financial Terms and Roles FIN\370 Jeff D. Garcia Finance - the management of revenues, esp. those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment * Efficient market - Market where all pertinent information is available to all participants at the same time, and where prices respond immediately to available information. Stock markets are considered the best examples of efficient markets. * Primary market - Market in which buyers and sellers negotiate and transact business
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