pertaining to monetary receipts and expenditures; pertaining or relating to money matters; pecuniary: financial operations. 2. of or relating to those commonly engaged in dealing with money and credit. noun. 3. financials, financial information or data about a company, as balance sheets and price-earnings ratio.
To transcend is exceed or to go past defined limits. An example of to transcend is the separation from your body as experienced during intense meditation. To transcend is to be superior or to excel. 1  An example of transcend is a student who is very gifted.
The Latin verb scandere means to climb, so transcend has the basic meaning of climbing so high that you cross some boundary. A transcendent experience is one that takes you out of yourself and convinces you of a larger life or existence; in this sense, it means something close to spiritual. The American writers and thinkers known as the Transcendentalists, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, believed in the unity of all creation, the basic goodness of humankind, and the superiority of spiritual vision over mere logic.