Finance
Corporate Finance
A branch of economics concerned with resource allocation as well as resource management, acquisition and investment. Simply, finance deals with matters related to money and the markets. Thinking of buying a bond issued by a corporation? Learn the basics about corporate bonds as well as how to evaluate the yield, maturity, duration, rating, callability and convertibility.
As the regulators continuously make efforts for enhancing transparent financial practices and improving investor protection, the regulations affecting the corporate enterprises continuously change. The tax laws are also ever changing and affecting the operations of the corporate entities.
Corporate finance is an area of finance dealing with the financial decisions corporations make and the tools and analysis used to make these decisions. The primary goal of corporate finance is to maximize corporate value while reducing the firm’s financial risks. Although it is in principle different from managerial finance which studies the financial decisions of all firms, rather than corporations alone, the main concepts in the study of corporate finance are applicable to the financial problems of all kinds of firms.
The Journal of Corporate Finance has a two-stage review process. In the first stage, at least one editor must decide that a paper should go to a reviewer. The number of submissions to the JCF has increased dramatically and we do not have the resources in terms of the editor’s and, most importantly, reviewer’s time to review all papers. If a paper passes the first stage, the paper is sent to at least one reviewer for detailed comments. We would like to help authors improve their papers, even if they will not be published, but we are severely limited in that role by resource constraints.
