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What Is Corporate Finance?

Corporate finance is a subfield of finance that deals with how corporations address funding sources, capital structuring, accounting, and investment decisions.

Corporate finance is also often concerned with maximizing shareholder value through long- and short-term financial planning and implementing various strategies. Corporate finance activities range from capital investment to tax considerations.

Key Takeaways
1. Corporate finance is concerned with how businesses fund their operations to maximize profits and minimize costs.

2. It deals with the day-to-day demands on business cash flows and long-term financing goals (e.g., issuing bonds).

3. Corporate finance also involves monitoring cash flows, accounting, preparing financial statements, and taxation.

4. Determining whether or not to issue a dividend is another corporate finance activity.

Understanding Corporate Finance
Corporate finance has three main areas: capital budgeting, capital financing, and working capital management. Capital budgeting is the process of prioritizing funds toward the most profitable projects. Capital financing is determining how a company's investments and endeavors will be financed. Working capital management is concerned with cash flow for day-to-day operations and maintaining liquidity.

While not necessarily an area of corporate finance, dividend distributions to shareholders are also a main concern because, in a publicly-owned company, shareholders are usually owners and expect returns for their investments.

Corporate Finance Activities
Corporate finance tasks include capital investing, financing, and liquidity management.

Capital Investments
The capital investment decision process is primarily concerned with capital budgeting.

Through capital budgeting, a company identifies capital expenditures, estimates future cash flows from proposed capital projects, compares planned investments with potential proceeds, and decides which projects to include in its capital budget.

Making capital investments is perhaps the most important corporate finance task and can have serious business implications. Poor capital budgeting (e.g., excessive investing or under-funded investments) can compromise a company's financial position, either because of increased financing costs or inadequate operating capacity.

Important
Corporate financing includes the activities involved with a corporation's financing, investment, and capital budgeting decisions.

SUMMARY
Corporate finance is a subset of the field of finance. It involves proper budgeting, raising capital to meet company needs and objectives with debt and/or equity, and the efficient management of a company's current assets and liabilities.

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