Wikipedia:WikiProject Finance

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Welcome to the Finance Wikiproject

The aspiration of this project is to make Wikipedia an authoritative, current, and useful site for anyone interested in better understanding the field of finance. It aims to make the world a better place by demystifying the workings of financial markets, its actors, and the underlying concepts.

The goals of this project are to:

• Provide guidelines, recommendations, and standards for articles related to the field of finance and the many related subtopics
• Provide overarching conceptual frameworks to ensure that articles are mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive, including navigational devices and knowledge taxonomy, as needed
• Provide a forum for discussing topics related to articles about the field of finance

Contents 1 Scope 2 Participants 2.1 Important Sites 3 Objectives of the project 4 Templates Created 4.1 Top Level 4.2 Second Level 4.3 Lowest Level 4.4 User template 5 Templates to be Created 5.1 Top Level 5.2 Second Level 5.3 Lowest Level 5.3.1 Financial Markets 5.3.2 Corporate Finance 5.3.3 Personal Finance 5.3.4 Public Finance 5.3.5 Banks and Banking 5.3.6 Financial regulation 5.3.7 History of finance 5.3.8 Old templates 6 Pages to Improve or Create 7 Assessment

[edit] Scope

Finance is based on fundamental concepts in economics, but also encompasses specific real-world phenomena and business practices. The project will include both corporate finance, i.e., the decisions made by firms that need financing for their business decisions; and investment finance, those who provide financing, expecting some kind of return. The project will deal with risk as it relates to these activities, and also the industry and market structures for finance.

This is indeed a subset of Business and Economics, but since it is such a large, complex, and important field in the world economy and world society, it warrants its own wikiproject.

[edit] Participants

1. --Leifern 19:50, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
2. --DrewWiki 19:54, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
3. --Pgreenfinch 14:26, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
4. --Crocodile Punter 14:48, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
5. --Grace E. Dougle 09:00, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
6. --JQ 23:53, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
7. --AdamSmithee 09:03, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
8. -- Egfrank 08:31, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Important Sites

List of finance topics

[edit] Objectives of the project

1. Organize the topical structure of the field, primarily by way of navigational templates
2. Recruit additional members
3. Identify clear gaps in article topics
4. Agree on quality standards and requirements for articles
5. Assess and prioritize improvement needs for existing articles
6. Bring first article up to Featured Article status

[edit] Templates Created

[edit] Top Level

• Template:Finance

[edit] Second Level

• Template:Financial markets - equivalent to financial products. The types of exchanges that take place within finance, particularly secondary markets
• Template:Financial market participants - the types of organizations that participate in financial markets, whether as principals, intermediaries, or facilitators
• Template:Corporate Finance - the technologies, activities, practices, and solutions that are employed by organizations that have financing needs
• Template:Personal finance - topics related to individual and household financial management
• Template:Public finance - conventions, activities, and institutions related to governmental financing needs
• Template:Banking - types of financial intermediaries that assume risk in financial transactions
• Template:Financial regulation - the structure of laws and rules that govern financial transactions

[edit] Lowest Level

[edit] User template

Template:User finance

[edit] Templates to be Created

[edit] Top Level

Complete

[edit] Second Level

[edit] Lowest Level

These Templates will be displayed on the bottom of the article

[edit] Financial Markets

• Template:Bond market
• Template:Stock market
• Template:Derivatives market
• Template:Other financial markets
  • This will encompase, OTC, Real Estate, Forex,

[edit] Corporate Finance

• Template:Structured Finance
  • Will include Credit Rating Agency
  • WIll include M&A
• Template:Accounting and Auditing
  • Will include Financial Statements
• Template:Financial Risk Management
  • Will include Capital budgeting

[edit] Personal Finance

• Template:Retirement
  • Will Include Financial Advisors
  • Will Include Financial Planner
  • Will Include Estate Planning
• Template:Employment contract
• Template:Credit and Debt

[edit] Public Finance

Non for Public Finance

[edit] Banks and Banking

• Templage:International Banking
  • Will Include All Central Banks
• Template:US Federal Reserve System
• Template:Banking

[edit] Financial regulation

• Templage:Financial regulation and Legislation
  • Includes Legislation
  • Includes Fraud
• Template:Designations and Accredations

[edit] History of finance

• Template:History of finance

[edit] Old templates

• Template:Financial markets,
• Template:Finance,
• Template:Securities,
• Template:Financial derivatives,
• Template:Economics

[edit] Pages to Improve or Create

[edit] Assessment