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Banking and Finance

Podyplomowe Studia Bankowości i Finansów

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⇑Banking and Finance at SGGW

Language: Polish Studies in Polish
Subject area: economy and administration

⇑Definitions and quotes

Finance
Finance is a field that deals with the study of investments. It includes the dynamics of assets and liabilities over time under conditions of different degrees of uncertainties and risks. Finance can also be defined as the science of money management. Market participants aim to price assets based on their risk level, fundamental value, and their expected rate of return. Finance can be broken into three sub-categories: public finance, corporate finance and personal finance.
Finance
Nothing in finance is more fatuous and harmful, in our opinion, than the firmly established attitude of common stock investors regarding questions of corporate management. That attitude is summed up in the phrase: "If you don't like the management, sell your stock." [...] The public owners seem to have abdicated all claim to control over the paid superintendents of their property.
Benjamin Graham, World Commodities and World Currencies (1944)
Banking
The best way to rob a bank is to own one.
Title of a book by William K. Black (2005)
Banking
We [Banks] have a "right to make a profit"
Brian Moynihan, CEO, Bank of America, 2011 statement. Source: Money.CNN.com October 5th, 2011.

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