Your Guide To Accounts Receivable Financing
If you feel stuck in your business due to an acute shortage of cash and are struggling to wriggle out of a difficult situation, you have no option but to go for the right kind of financing that suits your requirements. If you have started a new business and have limited options of availing of usual loans and credits it is time you turned to accounts receivable financing.
Accounts receivable financing is probably the quickest way to get cash for your business by selling your outstanding invoices or receivables at a discount to a financier or a factoring company that assumes a certain amount of inherent risk. In principle, the receivables are treated as an asset and are pledged as a collateral against which business firms may draw cash. What determines the credit line is the financial strength of the buyer rather than that of the client, who is the seller of the receivables. In principle, banks may also consider receivables as security but in practice it is commercial finance companies that do receivable financing.
In order to achieve ambitious sales targets an increasing number of businesses often decide to offer credit terms to clients. At the same time they need working capital to finance the growth of their business. In such situations they need not approach a bank for borrowing money. Account receivable financing comes to their rescue with ready cash.
The whole process of accounts receivable financing is pretty simple and doesn’t take much time. In most cases, financiers make their decisions and determine the amount of financing on the basis of invoicing process and the credit strength of the account debtor/buyer. Usually they don’t take in to account tax returns, financials or for that matter equity to debt ratios. Thankfully, there is very little paperwork and underwriting involved. In most cases, initial funding is available in three to five working days.
Companies of all sizes and financial health are eligible for accounts receivable financing. Even start-up enterprises with irregular sales patterns can qualify for receivable financing provided they are able to generate sales on open credit terms to customers with reasonable financial credit strength. It is a boon for those businesses where past earnings may not qualify for a conventional loan or an increase in their credit line.
It is important to understand that it is the age of a receivable that determine the amount of value assigned to the account. The more recent an invoice the greater would be the amount of funding. On the other hand, an account receivable that is more than 90 days old is unlikely to attract any financing.
While accounts receivable financing is gaining popularity it is vital to be aware of its inherent drawbacks. A 5% discount fee may not make a big hole in a company’s resources but in the course of time the costs can considerably exceed the interest on bank credit or a loan. Besides, unlike the banking industry the factoring industry is not well regulated. So while going for such financing carefully study the contract and negotiate discount rates. Sooner or later you must graduate from accounts receivable financing to a regular credit line from your bank.
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I would go down to your local community college and do an associate degree in something like Pre-Business Administration. (I found this on the Maryland community college's web site – yahoo chops the end off web address's but it may be of some help):
http://www.mayland.cc.nc.us/academics/artsci/aaprebus/index.html
This should be enough to admit you to a finance degree program at the University of Maryland – but you could go elsewhere if you like.
On line degrees are fine if you for some reason can't go to classes . But if you can then doing so is best. I personally have concerns about the University of Phoenix's accreditation. State run institutions are never a concern. Tons offer them as well eg SUNY and would be a better choice IMHO than phoenix.
Thanks
Bill
Both involve Future value calculation. The formula is
PV=FV/(1+r/100)^n
PV=present value
FV=Future Value
r=interest rate
^ to the power of
n=number of years
You can compute it using an ordinary calculator or a financial calculator, it is a pretty simple financial calculation. As for the second question, you just use the same formula, only change the subject, or just compute the rate using financial calculator .
You can also use MS Excel VBA to compute the financial calculation. Incidentally, I have a free Visual Basic tutorial web site where I also have some lessons on VBA for Excel. You can visit my site at
http://www.vbtutor.net
and then click on VBA tutorial to look at the sample programs that process financial calculations.
Good Luck.
before actual practice there’s the groundwork thats to aquire the correct mindset for practice. Pujas are one of them that will help make actual practice easier.
The best Puja is practicing the Dharma. The best gift is the offering the Dharma and the best Dharma is having good Guru devotion. The easiest way to practice the Dharma is holding our vows and commitments.
So if we practise, then our guru has one less person to worry about, and our dharmapala also has one less person to look out for.
Dharmapala protects our dharma practice by clearing our obstacles
Guru protects us by teaching us methods to stop generating karma that will manifest as obstacles for our dharma practice
Therefore guru = dharmapala, one and the same, yaay!
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Pujas are wonderful method towards achieving a certain goal or target. It is not the answer-all for all our problems but it will certainly help in making things easier. I guess it helps to think of it as donation to help the Dharma center grow as well.
Hi purplerain372: Well its very simple. That is because we are tapping to our Guru’s blessings when we visualize the protector and Guru as one. The blessing allows us more powerful connection a with the Dharma protector and yidams. The blessing only comes with authentic lineages that the Guru holds. This is called samaya and it is very powerful blessing.
Dear purplerain372: I don’t think the Guru and protector are the same but they work hand in hand. If we practice the Dharma, then it will be easier for the Guru to impart Dharma into us and it will make the Dharma Protector’s work of clearing our obstacles much easier. Let’s face it, we have a mountain of sin piled up from previous lives. Just because we goody-goody this life doesn’t wipe away the mountain. If we are not careful, the mountain falls on top of our heads!
I think pujas and prayers are essential during uncertain times like these. When our health can take a nosedive all of a sudden and disasters can strike at any time. Pujas are both a relief and a recharge for a weary soul.
Both involve present value calculation. The formula is
PV=FV/(1+r/100)^n
PV=present value
FV=Future Value
r=interest rate
^ to the power of
n=number of years
You can compute it using an ordinary calculator or a financial calculator, it is a pretty simple financial calculation. As for the second question, you just use the same formula, only change the subject, or just compute the rate using financial calculator .
You can also use MS Excel VBA to compute the financial calculation. Incidentally, I have a free Visual Basic tutorial web site where I also have some lessons on VBA for Excel. You can visit my site at
http://www.vbtutor.net
and then click on VBA tutorial to look at the sample programs that process financial calculations.
Based on my calculation, the answer for the first question is the investment should be $23.13 billions, not $30.00 as calculated by Maybe???
Good Luck.
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Well, I think it is not all that bad. Kechara House having organized Pujas like that for others means that there are more committed people to do this Pujas. It that is actually a big step for Kechara House.
Thank you for explaining bhusukumode
I was just wondering, how this ties in with relation to visualisations of your dharma protector and guru being one? I always thought that because your guru gave you methods for not creating more negative karma for yourself, that that was the greatest protection of all? Can you please explain…or is it more appropriate for me to post my questions on Rinpoche’s forum? 