What is the definition of finance in your own view?

Finance means controlling of all the monetary resources like cash, bank accounts, credits, bond and stocks in order to get the maximum safety and optimum higher returns by investment, business and trades.

Finance means controlling and managing all monetary assets like cash, funds, loans, investments, stocks, bonds and utilizing for the economic benefit of the company

Finance is an act of managing funds there by maximizing the shareholders value and retaining right talent with right benefits.

finance is the  management of money, banking, investments, credit, and furthermore more, we can say (controlling of all the monetary resources)

Finance is about the complete control of payables, receivables, casflow, profit and loss, asset management and most importantly the analization of profit of loss of the company and from there the management will know the stand of the company on a monthly basis to annual basis.

Finance is just like a lifeblood of the business.Without  finance business is lake a fish out of water.The main and easy understanding of finance is """Maximization the Shareholder worth.""

Not to ​provide money (Cash) only, but also providing Knowledge, work Ethics,  experience , skills , time & extra effort & loyalty for the enterprise / Company for something to ​Happen 

Finance is optimizing, managing, investing and keeping a track of your resources.

Finance is the language of business, it relates to establish , maintain, & extract monetary & economic benefits by doing a specific activity.

The simplest definition of finance is just money used or raised to invest in any asset to earn some profit. The asset may be machinery, manpower, or management.

Finance basically is evaluation of all resources in monetary terms may it be labour, raw materials, any product, against the possible allocations of these resources to attain higher returns. Allocation of resources are determined based on the various criteria like ROI, payback period, price to book value ratio, eps, etc for projects and investments. Ultimate aim is to attain higher wealth for all stakeholders.