This past Christmas my wife gave me a FitBit. I’m a numbers nerd, so the ability to see my heart rate resting and during exercise, number of calories burned and consumed, how much sleep and the quality of it and how much water I drink all appealed to me. I kind of gave myself a…
The title of this article may be a little confusing, but let me de-mystify it if I can. In your business, you need funding for certain things. You might be buying a business, a building, a piece of equipment or just need funds to meet operating expenses including payroll. These things I just identified are…
I thought this would be a good follow-up to my last post “5 Things to Know Before You Borrow.” Many of us get an annual physical, the doctor checks us out to see how things look like cholesterol, blood pressure, heart rate and respiration and compare them to last year. We want to manage our…
Many business owners look at their profit and loss statement and determine if they’re profitable or not. How is revenue tracking against last month or last year? Any changes in gross or net profit margin? If I’m making money then everything must be ok. There is some validity to that way of thinking.
Two things have become increasingly apparent to me. If you’re a big company, you have good access to capital and can find the funding needed to finance your business. Small companies don’t have that access to capital and finding funding is difficult. Here’s why:
So, you took out a line of credit, but you forgot about the 30 day annual payout requirement on the line when you signed the commitment letter. You don’t have the cash to pay the line in full. So, what’s next? Maybe you took out a term loan for a piece of equipment. Cash flow…
Are you under-banked? If so, you’re not alone. A recent article I read indicated that among CFO’s, being under-banked has landed on the growing list of challenges most CFO’s face. Here’s why:
Have you ever had the experience where sales and growth were either happening way too fast or not fast enough? The success of both requires management on the part of the owner and his or her management team. The size of the business will determine what the division of labor is for these management tasks….
Some people are risk takers and don’t mind going in to debt and some are totally debt averse. They don’t borrow at all.
Securing financing for your business can be challenging. Whether you’re borrowing money for the first time to start your business or you’re looking for a loan to grow, the lending criteria banks use can be rigorous. It’s important to know what are the must haves that a bank is looking for to approve your loan….
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