The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to corporate finance: Corporate finance is the area of finance that deals with the sources of funding, and the capital structure of corporations, the actions that managers take to increase the value of the firm to the shareholders, and the tools and analysis used to allocate financial resources. For finance in general, see Outline of finance. Critical accounting policy Gross margin Stakeholder (corporate) Yield (finance) Inverted yield curve Corporate action Corporate capitalism Corporate donations Corporate responsibility Corporate sustainability Corporate tax Franchise tax Corporate taxonomy Corporate trust Arbitrage Beta (finance) Earnings at risk Financial engineering Fundamental analysis Going concern Scenario analysis Short-rate model Spread trade Bayes theorem Black-Scholes model Dividend discount model Generalized gaussian distribution Linear algebra Marginal utility Money flow index Stock market index Asset stripping Diversification (marketing strategy) Embedded option Option-adjusted spread Management buy-in Public offering without listing Rebalancing investments Captive insurance Cost of equity Financial management Capital management Consignment Flag of convenience Operational due diligence (alternative investments) Financial ratio Capitalization rate Effective interest rate Incremental capital-output ratio Loan-to-value ratio Operating ratio P/B ratio Capital (economics) Cost of capital Abnormal return Capital budgeting Accounting rate of return Internal rate of return Capital structure Liquid capital Money Venture capital Working capital Corporation Legal person and Corporate personhood Benefit corporation Flow-through entity Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) Offshore company Shell corporation Yield co Asset management Accounts receivable Receivables turnover ratio Capital asset Complementary assets Factoring (finance) Fixed asset Accelerated depreciation Fixed assets management Fixed asset register Intangible asset Goodwill (ac