Legal Definition and Related Resources of Finance

As a verb, means to provide capital or loan money as needed to carry on business . See Needles v Kansas City, Mo., 371 S. W.2d 300.

A discipline concerned with determining value and making decisions. The finance function allocates resources, which includes acquiring, investing, and managing resources.

noun

• accounts
• aerarium
• art of monetary relations
• budget
• business science
• commercial theory
• economics
• exchange
• expenditure
• financial affairs
• financial resources
• jiscus
• funds
• income
• investments
• management of money
• monetary theory
• money
• money dealings
• moneymaking
• money matters
• pecmiiaria
• pecuniary management
• public economy
• public revenue
• resources
• revenue
• science of monetary relations
• science of wealth
• theory of business
• theory of fiscal relations
• wealth
• working capital

verb

• advance
• aid
• assist
• back
• capitalize
• float
• fund
• invest
• lend
• loan
• patronize
• pay for
• provide capital
• provide funds
• provide money
• provide subvention
• put up the money
• set up in business
• sponsor
• subsidize
• supply money
• support
• sustain

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Finance in Historical Law

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English Spanish Translation of Finance

Finanzas

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Finance Definition (in the Accounting Vocabulary)

The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants offers the following definition of Finance in a way that is easy for anybody to understand: The science of the management of money and other financial ASSETS.

Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Finance

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c. 1400, “an end, settlement, retribution,” from Old French finance “end, ending; pardon, remission; payment, expense; settlement of a debt” (13c.), noun of action from finer “to end, settle a dispute or debt,” from fin (see fine; this term is also a noun.). Compare Medieval Latin finis “a payment in settlement, fine or tax.” The notion is of “ending” (by satisfying) something that is due (compare Greek telos “end;” plural tele “services due, dues exacted by the state, financial means”). The French senses gradually were brought into English: “ransom” (mid-15c.), “taxation” (late 15c.); the sense of “management of money, science of monetary business” first recorded in English 1770.

What is the meaning of Finance?

A definition of Finance is provided here: The business function that is responsible for the efficient acquisition and disbursement of funds.