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Corporate Finance

• Corporate finance is an area of finance dealing with the financial decisions corporations make. 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 to capital.
• The discipline can be divided into long-term and short-term decisions and techniques.
• Capital investment decisions are long-term choices about which projects receive investment, whether to finance that investment with equity or debt, and when or whether to pay dividends to shareholders.
• Working capital management deals with the short-term balance of current assets and current liabilities; the focus here is on managing cash, inventories, and short-term borrowing and lending (such as the terms on credit extended to customers).