Commercial finance is one of the many options available to entrepreneurs seeking capital to start or grow an existing business. This sort of financing is also referred to as asset-based lending, meaning that it is a secured business loan. The borrower guarantees the loan by giving up business assets as collateral for the loan. Another popular phrase for commercial finance is asset-based finance.
Year End Investment Ideas and Tax Strategies
First thing Monday morning I’m going to march into my boss’s office and demand a pay cut so that I’ll be in a lower tax bracket next year. Profits are the holy grail of investing. Few people will admit just how infrequently they have experienced them or, conversely, just how frequently they have watched them disappear beneath the waves of a correction.
Dealing With Market Corrections: Ten Dos and Don’ts
A correction is a beautiful thing, simply the flip side of a rally, big or small. As long your cash flow continues unabated, the change in market value is merely a perceptual issue.
Managing the Income Portfolio
You dont have to be a professional Investment Manager to professionally manage your investment portfolio, but you do need to have a long term plan and know something about Asset Allocation a portfolio organization tool that is often misunderstood and almost always improperly used within the financial community. Remember, your unhappiness is Wall Streets most coveted asset. Dont humor them.
A New Wall Street Line Dance: Performance
Every December, with visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads, investors begin to scrutinize their performance, formulate couldas and shouldas, and determine what to try next year. Its an annual, masochistic, right of passage.
Ten Common Investment Errors: Stocks, Bonds, & Management
Losing money on an investment may not be the result of a mistake, and not all mistakes result in monetary losses. Compounding the problems that investors have managing their investment portfolios is the sideshowesque sensationalism that the media brings to the process. Avoid these ten common errors to improve your performance:
Working Capital & Cash Flow Solutions: Should I Borrow From A Bank?
Recently, my newspaper reported that a local bank …earned a four star excellence rating for the sixty-fourth consecutive quarter. Thats sixteen years of four star excellence! The article went on to say that the rating is based on a complex formula that includes capital safety levels, quality of loan portfolio, and the ability to meet obligations The press release was designed to showcase the value of this bank and demonstrate its prominent position in the economy.
Factoring Can Be An Ideal Solution For Start-Up And/Or Growing Businesses
Factoring is one of the oldest methods of business financing in existence. The history of factoring dates back to the days of moneylenders in the middle ages. Factoring has been the working capital facility of choice in Europe for centuries. It has taken on a new life in recent years as a financing method for many businesses in the United States.
Factoring is the sale of accounts receivable, as opposed to borrowing against them as you would do with a bank line of credit. …
How Is Your Cash Flow And Factoring
How did your company do this month with the cash flow? Why not let the question go; how has your cash flow been this year?
Did you sweat it out worrying you might not make payroll, get that vendor off your back, pay that tax bill that was due and it was a lot more than you expected?
For those of you that have a line of credit, did you get close to maxing out your line and have concerns that your line of credit is no longer an adequate facility.
For those of you that …
Accounts Receivable Financing, Tax Write Off And What Does It Cost?
Banks won’t lend money to a business seeking to acquire larger contracts because its not viewed as an asset. So if you are a small start up company, funding for expansion may be hard to obtain. Accounts Receivable Financing could be the key to funding for a start up with desires to bid on large Government (or Corporate) contracts.
So what is Accounts Receivable Financing? It is the selling of your accounts receivable invoices for cash versus waiting 30-60 or 90 days to be …
Working Capital Is Paramount To A Businesses Livelihood
All of the planning in the world is an exercise in futility without the working capital to successfully carry out the plan. If a business sells to customers on terms, then working capital availability is dependent on cash flow timing. In most instances a business will incur a cash flow gap between the time cash is required for inventory, payroll and operating expenses, and the time cash is received from customers paying on terms. Lets explore a simple example of this timing …
Working Capital Solutions With Factoring
Ideal Candidates for Accounts Receivable Factoring:
Any business that provides a product or service to other creditworthy businesses and is constrained by their day-to-day cash flow situation.
Does your business need:
Cash to Cover Payroll?
Working Capital to Fuel Growth?
Help with Cash Flow Problems?
Help because of Bank Turn Downs or refusal to extend current lines?
New Equipment to Grow?
What is factoring?
In a traditional factoring arr…