Grant asks the owners to leave the room. He wants to talk to the employees alone – they’ll be more open. Immediately, various personnel did open up. They had definite opinions of what the issues were. Gross mismanagement. The right hand doesn’t really know what the left hand is doing. They have to have a leader – someone who will step up and take charge.
Commercial finance is one of the many options available to entrepreneurs seeking capital to start or grow an existing business. 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.
Account receivable factoring is one form of commercial finance. This consists of selling open invoices for cash that can be used right away in the business. There are many benefits to this financing option including not giving up equity, being able to take advantage of early payment and volume discounts from your suppliers, you can actually purchase in greater volume from suppliers, and you also accrue no additional debt in your business.
Another popular commercial finance option is purchase order financing because it offers quick cash flow reserves. When any business is growing or expanding their business the cash flow simply isn’t there because of the money it takes to market and produce products. Suppliers also want to be paid with C.O.D. and your customers are on Net-30 terms; so you run into a cash flow problem. Purchase order financing solves this issue by paying for the costs of your goods directly to the supplier, thus giving you more cash to use on more critical business expenditures. To begin with purchase order financing simply obtain a purchase order from your customer, find an approved supplier, place the order through that supplier. Continue reading “This sort of financing is also referred to as asset-based lending, meaning that it is a secured business loan”