Thursday, 8 December 2011

Asset Management For Big-Ticket Business Purchases

190-800 The big challenges for most small-business owners is finding cash for their big purchases or expansion projects. Things such as office supplies are easily taken care of. But what about when you need money to buy the new company plane? Or when your construction business needs new construction equipment? Or you have to buy property for your new building? This is when you need to find financing. Cash/credit is to the business what blood is to the body, and you need a sustainable cash flow just as much as your body needs blood.

One source of funding for your project or equipment could be asset finance. This will allow the owner of the business to employ business assets for generating cash and replenishing working capital requirements. The cash conversion is normally done as a trade for a security interest in that asset which the owner might choose to use. Asset finance is a quick, easy method for generating cash needed by the small business. It leverages business assets in order to provide a quick cash injection.
190-951 There are several forms of asset management you might consider. The first and most popular one is called invoice factoring. This one involves the factoring service provider providing cash against a pre-existing sales ledger debt as well as future sales invoices. The benefit o using this approach is that cash is available for the business which it could not otherwise receive until the credit period offered to the customer expired.
Using this invoice factoring approach, the factoring service provider will collect the debt owed from your customer and will levy a charge against you for the charge. The sum which the factoring service provider advances will vary depending on certain risk factors and negotiation. However, it will normally be just over 60% and somewhat less than 90 percent of the original debt.
A second way to spend against the sales ledger value is when the finance provider lends against the stock's value held in the business. This is not quite as popular among providers. Even though the stock can be collated against the loan, it's not yet converted to sales, and any changes in fashion or design could lower the stock's potential value, which leads to an increased risk in possible recovery value for the provider.
190-956 A third option: if new assets are going to be acquired rather than using business cash for purchasing the asset, it's possible to have a finance lease negotiated which allows the business to keep the money it otherwise would have used for making the purchase. During the period of negotiated repayment, the original capital plus interest amount is repaid, which eases the pressures on the cash flow. The financed lease item, for accounting purposes, will be noted in the balance sheet as a business asset.
And finally, a bridging loan is available to businesses as a short-term loan to help the business overcome problems caused when outflows and inflows of cash don't match. For 4. And finally, a sale / leaseback arrangement will let the business sell something, for instance, a building, and then right away lease the building back from the purchaser. The seller will enjoy a cash inflow and can utilize the cash to generate more income for fund their future lease costs.

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