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What is Finance?
Finance is the study of how individuals, companies and governments raise, allocate and manage money over time.
Finance
Finance
By Glintr Editorial TeamReviewed by Glintr Learn ReviewersUpdated 5 min readArea: Finance
Definition
Finance is the discipline of managing money — funding, investing, valuation and risk. It spans personal finance, corporate finance and capital markets, and connects deeply to accounting and economics.
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