Are you London based hospitality operator/entrepreneur? Then leasehold finance can help you to achieve your goals. This is why. The London hospitality scene is generally acknowledged as one of the most vibrant of any capital city in the world. Yet finding good well-established businesses for sale or prime vacant sites to open a restaurant, brasserie [...]
SMEs generally perceive credit conditions to be tight. They are worried that banks are reluctant to increase loans or overdrafts. This is why they may turn to you for help. And this is why you need to be aware of alternative forms of finance to the traditional bank overdraft that are gaining in popularity. If [...]
If you are an accountant and have a client needing finance to: • Fund a new start business • Expand an existing business • Purchase new equipment • Fund seasonal shortfalls • Or even simply just manage their cash flow The choice of business financing options is endless. You need to take time to [...]
How often do clients come to you at the very last moment stating: "We have a cash flow problem and don't know what to do"? Even solid businesses can experience cash flow problems from time to time. Cash flow problems can result from: • Unexpected large orders that need financing • Unexpected bills And [...]
Every day the media tells us about the lack of funding available to small businesses and about the general gloom surrounding growth and opportunities. The strange thing is, from a business finance point of view, I cannot see why this is the case. In fact the institutional financiers I work with are desperate to lend [...]
Many businesses are struggling in the current economic climate, totally unaware aware of the huge variety of alternative forms of business finance that could be available to them. More and more businesses simply believe and accept the fact that they: • Are not eligible for finance (as they may have been turned down by a [...]
Thank you to Ultimate Construction Finance Managing Director Martin Bennison for taking time out of his busy schedule to grant us an interview about his company’s new business finance product offering for the construction sector. The first quarter of 2013 has seen a slow start for the invoice finance and ABL sector in general. How [...]
Sometimes things do not go to plan and it is hard to finance an unexpected bill. Sometimes businesses suffer peaks and troughs. Sometimes customers do not pay on time. Sometimes several bills arrive on the doorstep at once. This is what happened to a Sussex based provider of Computer Equipment Services. A normally cash [...]
Businesses all know that cash flow problems can result in costly overdraft charges and bad debt. In the worst-case scenario, cash flow problems can lead to business failure. Yet, businesses are still making mistakes when it comes to implementing and following through credit control procedures. Do any of these ring true in your organisation? Not [...]
Late paying customers can cripple cash flow. Companies who transact business overseas are at greater risk from late paying customers. They also suffer a greater risk of having to write payments off. This is the story of a South Coast engineering company that was initially delighted to experience significant growth having won new orders from [...]
