Real Estate investors are flooding back to the market, buying residential pre-foreclosures at a 20-30% discount. Single family homes are the focus of most investor portfolios and residential properties seem to get all the media attention. Naturally, investors feel more comfortable buying what they know and avoid seemingly different or more complicated products. Fortunately for [...]
A small business merchant account is essentially a merchant account designed for the smaller business or individual trading online. Traditionally, it can be difficult for small businesses with limited trading history to get a merchant account. This is really a door opener for bigger and better merchant account facilities. Once you have a good record, [...]
There are many questions that regularly come up when businesses are looking to raise extra capital for expanding their businesses or manage day to day cashflow. This article looks at three commonly faced issues and provides the best possible solution.
Q. My company imports garden furniture from China and India and I distribute to the UK [...]
There is a fundamental difference between cash flow and net profit. Net profit is the bottom line of the profit and loss account measuring the net growth in financial value. Cash is the business liquidity and closely related to the changes in the value of the current business assets in the balance sheet representing the [...]
Producing a cash flow is not difficult providing the business already has reasonable bookkeeping or accounting records. Manual accounts are fine although accounting software is likely to produce the best information base from which a cash flow forecast can be prepared.
There is not one specific format that a cash flow forecast can take. Each business [...]
Car Leasing is a great way to run a vehicle. Whether you want to run one through a business or personally as a private individual it is worth considering. It’s a simple no hassle way of doing things, you simply put a small deposit down and lease the vehicle over a period ranging from 12 [...]
In today’s financial industry there exists a term that several investors may not have heard about, but are still very familiar with the process. This particular term is labeled as delivery against acceptance, or can in many instances be labeled as delivery versus payment. No matter how you call it, both financial terms [...]
The internet is a great place to find the right lender for obtaining a loan. One can apply online by filling out a simple application and submitting it with just a few clicks of the mouse. Online loans, also known as e-loans, are just one more way to make your search for money to finance [...]
Raising capital can be difficult even for those with a decent track record. This is no great surprise because many entrepreneurs are badly prepared when they go before potential backers. They simply haven’t worked out their story. An outside investor will want to see and understand the facts and figures on costs, the market [...]
With 27 countries in the European Union and one of the world’s largest trading zones on our doorstep, there’s little wonder that more and more companies are turning to export as a means of boosting their business.
Exporting however, isn’t a step to be taken lightly and kick-starting an export initiative can be costly. [...]