For small business, this is referred to as SME finance. It generally involves balancing risk and profitability, while attempting to maximize an entity's wealth and the value of its stock.
Rather than an organization having a number of separate Finance departments performing the same tasks from different locations a more centralized version can be created.
Financial economics concentrates on influences of real economic variables on financial ones, in contrast to pure finance.
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