Corporate finance is an area of
finance dealing with the financial decisions
corporations make and the tools and analysis used to make these decisions. The primary goal of corporate finance is to enhance
corporate value while reducing the firm's financial
risks. Equivalently, the goal is to
maximize the corporations'
return on capital. Although it is in principle different from
managerial finance which studies the financial decisions of all firms, rather than corporations alone, the main concepts in the study of corporate finance are applicable to the financial problems of all kinds of firms.
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One of the three areas of the discipline of
finance. It deals with the operation of the firm (both the investment decision and the financing decision) from that firm's point of view.