Overview of Financial Market

1. Financial Management
Fifteenth Edition
Session 1
Section 1.1
Overview of
Financial Markets

2. Learning Objectives
• Understand the importance of financial markets, such as stock markets,
to a corporation and the financial manager’s role as liaison to those
markets

3. 1.1 Overview of Financial Markets-Stock Market (1 of 5)
• Corporations can be private or public
– A private corporation has a limited number of owners and there is no
organized market for its shares
– A public corporation has many owners and its shares trade on an organized
market, called a stock market

4. 1.1 Overview of Financial Markets-Stock (4 of 5)
• Listing Standards
– Outlines of the requirements a company must meet to be traded on the
exchange
 The NYSE’s listing standards are more stringent than those of NASDAQ

5. 1.1 Overview of Financial Markets-Other Markets (5 of 5)
• Other Financial Markets
– Bond Market
– Foreign Exchange Market
– Commodities Market
– Derivative Securities