Finance is the study of money, currency, and capital assets. It is related to—but not synonymous with—economics, which is the study of the production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods, and services (the discipline of financial economics bridges the two).

Finance activities occur within financial systems across various scopes. The field can be broadly divided into:

• Personal Finance
• Corporate Finance
• Public Finance

In a financial system, assets are bought, sold, or traded as financial instruments such as currencies, loans, bonds, shares, stocks, options, futures, and more.