WELCOME !

Thanks for dropping in for some hopefully great business info and on occasion some hopefully not too sarcastic comments on the state of Business Financing in Canada and what we are doing about it !

In 2004 I founded 7 PARK AVENUE FINANCIAL. At that time I had spent all my working life, at that time - Over 30 years in Commercial credit and lending and Canadian business financing. I believe the commercial lending landscape has drastically changed in Canada. I believe a void exists for business owners and finance managers for companies, large and small who want service, creativity, and alternatives.

Every day we strive to consistently deliver business financing that you feel meets the needs of your business. If you believe as we do that financing solutions and alternatives exist for your firm we want to talk to you. Our purpose is simple: we want to deliver the best business finance solutions for your company.



Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Commercial and Industrial Equipment Leasing Solutions















The Reviews Are In ! Commercial industrial equipment leasing solutions are a great way to grow your business
and conserve working capital
It's cash flow managment 101!




Information on the benefits of commercial industrial equipment leasing solutions in Canada . The ability to finance assets properly is key to business success




Canadian business benefits from commercial leasing and industrial equipment leasing when it comes to asset acquisitions for growth and profits.

As a small or medium sized business owner in Canada you do not want to deplete your cash resources. We would point out that larger , even public corporations in Canada have that same pressure, because when they report to shareholders the focus of their investors and shareholders is often cash flow growth and preservation .

Business owners and financial managers in Canada look to lease financing as an alternative to taking on bank term debt. Canadian chartered banks do not provide lease financing; they structure your asset acquisitions as loans which supplement your existing borrowing arrangements with the bank.

Quite often , as with any asset acquisition , its all about the monthly payment and more often than not you will find that the lease financing solution provides you with the lowest monthly payment , and in many cases you can arrange that payment to reflect your actual working capital situation – i.e. seasonal payments, skip payments, quarterly payments ( if desired ) etc. That is true flexibility.


Most lease financing solutions in Canada are at a fixed rate, but in some cases variable rates are also offered.

When clients ask us what are some of the major challenges or pitfalls of equipment leasing and financing we advise them that questions can be answered in a very simple manner - business owners need to focus on which benefits of lease equipment financing appeal to them and then work with a partner who can deliver optimal rates, terms and structures based on your firms overall credit quality.

The challenge for Canadian business is working thru the plethora of hundreds of equipment finance firms, many of which may not be suited to your type of asset acquisition and your firms overall credit quality. In Canada rates on equipment leases depend on the size the of the asset, the financial strength of the leasing company (they borrow money too!) and the overall credit quality of your firm. Leasing when it comes to pure interest rate focuses on your ability to generate future cash flows to make the monthly payment.


Thousands of leases are written every year in Canada for commercial, industrial and construction equipment when the historical cash flow of a customer does not necessarily reflect the future ability to pay. In that case the lease becomes what is known as ‘structured ‘, which simply means that a down payment might be required, the term of the lease might be shortened, and in some cases some additional collateral might be required Lease firms are in business to write leases, so usually every effort is made to complete a transaction that makes sense for all parties.


We advise customers to work with a credible, experience and trusted advisor in this area who can help your firm navigate the occasionally complex world of equipment financing in Canada. When you are successful you will have benefited from one of the great financing strategies of Canadian business - improved cash flow, prompt approvals, flexible payments and potential tax and accounting benefits. Those are great reasons to lease finance your assets.






7 Park Avenue Financial :
South Sheridan Executive Centre
2910 South Sheridan Way
Suite 301
Oakville, Ontario
L6J 7J8



Direct Line = 416 319 5769

Office = 905 829 2653


Email = sprokop@7parkavenuefinancial.com


http://www.7parkavenuefinancial.com


Business financing for Canadian Firms , specializing in working capital, cash flow, asset based financing , Equipment Leasing , franchise finance and Cdn. Tax Credit Finance . Founded 2004 - Completed in excess of 100 Million $ of financing for Canadian corporations .


' Canadian Business Financing With The Intelligent Use Of Experience '


ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stan has had a successful career with some of the world’s largest and most successful corporations.
Prior to founding 7 Park Avenue Financial in 2004 his employers over the last 25 years were, ASHLAND OIL, ( 1977-1980) DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION, ( 1980-1990) ) CABLE & WIRELESS PLC,( 1991 -1993) ) AND HEWLETT PACKARD ( 1994-2004 ) He is an expert in Canadian Business Financing.

Stan has over 40 years of business and finance executive experience. He has been recognized as a credit/financial executive for three of the largest technology companies in the world; Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment and Cable & Wireless. Stan has had in depth, hands on experience in assessing and evaluating thousands of companies that are seeking financing and expansion. He has been instrumental in helping many companies progress through every phase of financing, mergers & acquisitions, sales and marketing and human resources. Stan has worked with startups and public corporations and has many times established the financial wherewithal of organizations before approving millions of dollars of financing facilities and instruments on behalf of his employers.


















Monday, October 30, 2017

Factoring in Canada : Working Capital Financing When You Need It












Admit It ! Your Company Just Might Have A Working Capital Challenge & We've Got A Solution





Information on working capital solutions including asset based credit lines, true working capital facilities and a/r factoring




Factoring in Canada – as a Canadian business owner or financial manager you have heard of this type of financing but require more information in two areas:


How does it work ?

What does it cost ?



Naturally, even more important, is it right for your firm? Factoring in Canada is what we would call somewhat ‘fragmented’ as a business or industry. As a result many clients we meet either have entered into the wrong kind of factoring facilities, or simply don’t know where to go when they want more information. Because of that we encourage business people to enlist the aid of a trusted and experienced financing advisor in this area.


Unbeknownst to many people there are even banks in Canada, including some in the big 6 that offer this type of financing. We would position that offering as probably the best one in the industry, however our overall financing volumes must be very large and typically a facility would be at least in the one to two million dollar range, so that does not work for everyone .


When we refer to factoring we can make the statement it is in the general category of asset based financing – but it’s very specific in that in deals only with your account receivable. The basics of the factoring finance offering are that your receivables are purchased, as soon as you issue them, (if you wish). Legal ownership of the receivables is not longer your firms, but you have the immediate cash flow and working capital by virtue of having sold those receivables.


In our opinion 95% of the factoring in Canada involves the factor firms role in the billing and collection of your accounts – we don’t necessarily feel that is the best facility for the Canadian marketplace and encourage customers to initiate a facility whereby they get all the benefits of factoring from a financial perspective, but at the same time are able to bill and collect their own receivables. Most Canadian business owners are not looking for what we could call an ‘intrusive ‘financing facility that has their customers interacting with the factoring firm.


Canadian business probably does not realize that factoring, also otherwise known as invoice discounting, is used by thousands and thousands of firms in Canada. It has become more popular for a variety of reasons, one of them simply being that as it gets more difficult to obtain business credit in a challenging financial environment factoring itself offers total solutions to working capital and cash flow challenges. Another key point is that this type of financing has a broader appeal to companies that are either in start up phase, or growing very quickly and unable to access more traditional working capital.


A true feature of factoring is that it in effect provides you with unlimited working capital. By that we mean that if you have a traditional banking or term lending type facility it has caps and limits on it, including things such as covenants and other collateral. Since the underlying asset in factoring is just the account receivable, we can make the statement that if your receivables are continuing to grow you will always have the commensurate access to cash for all those receivables.


Most of the factoring in Canada is done on a recourse basis , so your firm ,or your factor partner, has to do some level of due diligence on your customers, although naturally every Canadian business should be doing that anyway . So if a receivable becomes uncollectible then you need to repay that amount that was advanced on that receivable.


In summary, if your Canadian firm is looking for a traditional factoring model and you don’t have concerns about your customers being notified of your factoring facility, this type of financing will suit you.


However, if you wish to maintain a total control of your billings, collections, and your interaction with our clients then consider a true working capital factoring facility – You will have all the funds you need, and your financing will not be transparent to your client based. That’s a great financing solution.



7 Park Avenue Financial :
South Sheridan Executive Centre
2910 South Sheridan Way
Suite 301
Oakville, Ontario
L6J 7J8

Direct Line = 416 319 5769

Office = 905 829 2653

Email = sprokop@7parkavenuefinancial.com

http://www.7parkavenuefinancial.com


Business financing for Canadian Firms , specializing in working capital, cash flow, asset based financing , Equipment Leasing , franchise finance and Cdn. Tax Credit Finance . Founded 2004 - Completed in excess of 100 Million $ of financing for Canadian corporations .


' Canadian Business Financing With The Intelligent Use Of Experience '

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stan has had a successful career with some of the world’s largest and most successful corporations.
Prior to founding 7 Park Avenue Financial in 2004 his employers over the last 25 years were, ASHLAND OIL, ( 1977-1980) DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION, ( 1980-1990) ) CABLE & WIRELESS PLC,( 1991 -1993) ) AND HEWLETT PACKARD ( 1994-2004 ) He is an expert in Canadian Business Financing.

Stan has over 40 years of business and finance executive experience. He has been recognized as a credit/financial executive for three of the largest technology companies in the world; Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment and Cable & Wireless. Stan has had in depth, hands on experience in assessing and evaluating thousands of companies that are seeking financing and expansion. He has been instrumental in helping many companies progress through every phase of financing, mergers & acquisitions, sales and marketing and human resources. Stan has worked with startups and public corporations and has many times established the financial wherewithal of organizations before approving millions of dollars of financing facilities and instruments on behalf of his employers.















Sunday, October 29, 2017

Commercial Factoring And Receivable Financing Strategies in Canada














Is Commercial Receivable Financing & Factoring the Rock Star Of Alternative Finance? We Think So & Here's Why!



Information on commercial factoring receivable financing in Canada. You need to know the cost and benefits of this type of alternative financing to augment cash flow & working capital needs



Canadian business owners and financial managers can be forgiven for getting confused when they hear about ‘commercial factoring ‘of accounts receivable as a financing strategy that is recommended for both growth and business financing survival. Part of this confusion comes simply from the fact that this relatively new business financing strategy goes under several names – those names include invoice discounting, receivable financing, etc. In reality they all of course are talking about the same financing strategy – which is the sale of your receivables for immediate cash to another party, generally a ‘factoring company ‘.

The sale of these accounts receivable causes two occurrences, a profit for the factoring company, (generally between 1-2%) and immediate cash for your firm, which is the seller and owner of the receivables your firm has generated.

In Canada we feel the main challenge for the acceptance of this strategy is the entire concept of who collects the receivable, i.e. your firm which sold the product or service, or the factoring company. The Canadian business marketplace has been somewhat slower to accept commercial factoring as a true traditional business financing strategy because of the optics of who collects the receivable. In years gone by it were only ‘financially troubled’ firms that utilized this strategy. That has clearly changed and factoring of various types is utilized by small start ups to some of Canada’s major corporations.

When we meet with clients who are considering a receivable financing working capital facility it is very easy to explain the immediate benefits - these of course include working capital and cash flow generation. However the type of facility you enter into, what firm you work with, and how this facility works on a day to day basis is really the essence of the key points that we focus on when a client contemplates this type of financing.

The ‘cost ‘of factoring should be a key discussion point in contemplation of such a financing. Unless you are a large already very credit worthy corporation your factoring costs will range from 1-2% per month. Factors that should take into account are the length of time that your customers take to pay yourself, and your ability to sustain the additional financing costs. There is a bottom line here, and that is simply hat you should have sufficient gross margin on your product or service that allows you to bear these additional costs.

Customers think of these costs as the ‘ interest rate ‘ on the transaction – this is really not valid because commercial factoring is not a debt financing per se, it is simply the liquidating of your receivables at an agreed upon discount . At the end of the day whether it’s perceived as a ‘ rate ‘ or a ‘ discount ‘ it still needs to be build into your profitability and cash flows budgets .

Is commercial factoring and receivable financing a recommended strategy? It is if you can immediately benefit from cash flow and working capital. It makes even more sense when you can utilized those funds (often received the same day as you invoice) to take advantages of supplier discounts and improved purchasing power. We have known some customers that have gained 100% cash flow benefits by immediate sale of their receivable, while at the same time utilizing those funds to reduce almost all of their discount factor fees. That’s true cash flow power.

Is there a bottom line? It’s simply that you should investigate commercial factoring, determine which benefits might work for you – while at the same time assessing costs and how the facility will work on a day to day basis. If it makes sense at that point work with a trusted, credible and experienced advisor to implement this relatively new cash flow solution for Canadian business .



7 Park Avenue Financial :

South Sheridan Executive Centre
2910 South Sheridan Way
Suite 301
Oakville, Ontario
L6J 7J8



Direct Line = 416 319 5769

Office = 905 829 2653


Email = sprokop@7parkavenuefinancial.com


http://www.7parkavenuefinancial.com


Business financing for Canadian Firms , specializing in working capital, cash flow, asset based financing , Equipment Leasing , franchise finance and Cdn. Tax Credit Finance . Founded 2004 - Completed in excess of 100 Million $ of financing for Canadian corporations .



' Canadian Business Financing With The Intelligent Use Of Experience '



ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stan has had a successful career with some of the world’s largest and most successful corporations.
Prior to founding 7 Park Avenue Financial in 2004 his employers over the last 25 years were, ASHLAND OIL, ( 1977-1980) DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION, ( 1980-1990) ) CABLE & WIRELESS PLC,( 1991 -1993) ) AND HEWLETT PACKARD ( 1994-2004 ) He is an expert in Canadian Business Financing.

Stan has over 40 years of business and finance executive experience. He has been recognized as a credit/financial executive for three of the largest technology companies in the world; Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment and Cable & Wireless. Stan has had in depth, hands on experience in assessing and evaluating thousands of companies that are seeking financing and expansion. He has been instrumental in helping many companies progress through every phase of financing, mergers & acquisitions, sales and marketing and human resources. Stan has worked with startups and public corporations and has many times established the financial wherewithal of organizations before approving millions of dollars of financing facilities and instruments on behalf of his employers.













Friday, October 27, 2017

Understanding Business Cash Flow












The term ' cash flow ' is widely used and somewhat widely misinterpreted. Its a specialized term in business and has often confusing definitions. The most pure form is the cash flow statement for any firm. At its simplest its a ' cash in' and ' cash out' analysis. Key to this analysis though is the timing of the receipt of funds. Any good business cash flow statement or projection will show projected inflows and outflows over a period of time - usually annually.

We mentioned wide misinterpretation. That is because it is often confused with other accounting terms such as 'profits ', ' income ', and 'revenue'. Naturally real cash is the life blood of an business. We don't pay our bills with ' revenue'!.

So, yes, our firm makes things, we sell them, and eventually we receive payment. During that time we are paying out cash to employees, suppliers, and also waiting to get paid ourselves. We are only able to pay our bills as a business with real cash!

When businesses prepare a cash flow statement they list their monthly expenses, both fixed and estimated, and then focus on anticipating when customers will pay invoices, thereby generating cash. Naturally there has to be some solid work around any assumptions in that whole process - for example:

Are the projected sales going to be realized

Will the payments from those sales be made on time

How much can be drawn out of the business in the meantime

As most business owners who have borrowed already know this type of document is probably the most important one that the bank or finance company wants to see.

Business owners therefore need to properly understand the total ' cash flow cyccle ' That cycle consists of purchasing inventory, booking receivables around the sales that are made, and then collecting hose receivables. Simply right? Not really, the true challenge is in the following: ' TIMING'!

Many textbooks in finance have been written around the mis-timing of the cash flow cycle - where large and once great companies went bankrupt by misunderstanding the subject of our article.

Most lay people find it very difficult to comprehend that a company that is profitable can go bankrupt. As we have discovered that can absolutely happen as financial managers confuse profits from a sale from receipt of cash from a sale. If the cash pipe is ' blocked ' problems will occur!

In summary, any business owners or financial managers understanding of the business cycle and proper cash flow will add value to the success of the business from a financial perspective.

Stan Prokop is the owner of 7 Park Avenue Financial. The firm originates business financing for Canadian firms, and is a specialist in business financing and working capital and cash flow financing alternatives.

http://www.7parkavenuefinancial.com/business_financing_services.html



7 Park Avenue Financial :

South Sheridan Executive Centre
2910 South Sheridan Way
Suite 301
Oakville, Ontario
L6J 7J8

Direct Line
= 416 319 5769

Office = 905 829 2653

Email
= sprokop@7parkavenuefinancial.com

http://www.7parkavenuefinancial.com


Business financing for Canadian Firms , specializing in working capital, cash flow, asset based financing , Equipment Leasing , franchise finance and Cdn. Tax Credit Finance . Founded 2004 - Completed in excess of 100 Million $ of financing for Canadian corporations .


' Canadian Business Financing With The Intelligent Use Of Experience '


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stan has had a successful career with some of the world’s largest and most successful corporations.
Prior to founding 7 Park Avenue Financial in 2004 his employers over the last 25 years were, ASHLAND OIL, ( 1977-1980) DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION, ( 1980-1990) ) CABLE & WIRELESS PLC,( 1991 -1993) ) AND HEWLETT PACKARD ( 1994-2004 ) He is an expert in Canadian Business Financing.

Stan has over 40 years of business and finance executive experience. He has been recognized as a credit/financial executive for three of the largest technology companies in the world; Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment and Cable & Wireless. Stan has had in depth, hands on experience in assessing and evaluating thousands of companies that are seeking financing and expansion. He has been instrumental in helping many companies progress through every phase of financing, mergers & acquisitions, sales and marketing and human resources. Stan has worked with startups and public corporations and has many times established the financial wherewithal of organizations before approving millions of dollars of financing facilities and instruments on behalf of his employers.





















Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/expert/Stan_Prokop/432698


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Thursday, October 26, 2017

How To Effectively Use Canadian Lease Equipment Financing













There's Reasons Why Equipment Leasing Works ? Here They Are !


Information on canadian equipment leasing and financing solutions in Canada. The ability to acquire equipment, technology and other assets is key to long term business success in todays competitive environment








Canadian equipment Financing has never been more critical to get in the current business environment. When speaking to Canadian business owners and financial managers they tell us that they want the ability to achieve asset acquisition for plant equipment, computers, and other fixed assets in an easy and reliable fashion. They also tell us they don’t want this type of financing to interfere with other financing they either have in place or are contemplating.


Canadian lease financing can deliver on all those customer needs. Naturally transactions come in all sizes, from 5k to Fifty Million dollars. If your transaction is smaller, generally fewer than 50k Canadian business owners are often pleased to find the simplicity of the financing. Why is that? It is simply because those computers we referenced above in our article also worked their way into the lease financing industry! Technology has made it very easy to process and application, verifies customer information, issue simplified documentation, and ensure all other miscellaneous processes are completed in a timely fashion. Canadian vendors are happy to see that when their customer finances a transaction they are paid promptly, thereby increasing their own revenues, cash flow, etc.

It clearly is a win win strategy for all parties, you as the customer, the lease firm, and your vendor or manufacturer.


Management time is everything in business today, and clients are pleased to hear that all those miscellaneous things they didn’t wan to worry about, (but are important nonetheless) are often taken care of in the lease transaction. That includes payment of the taxes, which is now spread out on a monthly basis, as well as often the installation, maintenance contract, etc.


On most occasions a first, or first and last deposit are required on your lease, but lets be honest and realize that is a very nominal cash outlay as opposed to laying out tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for equipment purchases .


We spoke of your cash outlay –naturally this emphasizes another key feature of Canadian lease equipment financing, which is simply that your payments are very easily matched against your benefits of the asset acquisition – If your firm needs new IT ( information technology ) such as computers, telecom, etc , you clearly have now realized that the leading edge of technology and computer power seems to change every day .Therefore matching your equipment lease term and payments to your expected useful life of new personal computers or servers is a great financing strategy .


Do you have alternatives to acquire the equipment – of course you do. Leasing is never viewed as the panacea of Holy Grail of equipment and asset acquisition. But if you benchmark and compare the benefits of leasing against paying cash, or negotiating larger of new banking and term loan facilities some of the key benefits of leasing will become very attractive to the Canadian business owner very quickly.


So if your company requires lease and asset financing look beyond the way in which you may have acquired assets in the past and consider lease financing as a great alternative and complimentary strategy to your business and profit growth.

Speak to a trusted, experienced and credible advisor or firm who will ensure you understand your various lease financing options.




7 Park Avenue Financial :

South Sheridan Executive Centre
2910 South Sheridan Way
Suite 301
Oakville, Ontario
L6J 7J8



Direct Line = 416 319 5769

Office = 905 829 2653


Email = sprokop@7parkavenuefinancial.com



http://www.7parkavenuefinancial.com


Business financing for Canadian Firms , specializing in working capital, cash flow, asset based financing , Equipment Leasing , franchise finance and Cdn. Tax Credit Finance . Founded 2004 - Completed in excess of 100 Million $ of financing for Canadian corporations .



' Canadian Business Financing With The Intelligent Use Of Experience '



ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stan has had a successful career with some of the world’s largest and most successful corporations.
Prior to founding 7 Park Avenue Financial in 2004 his employers over the last 25 years were, ASHLAND OIL, ( 1977-1980) DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION, ( 1980-1990) ) CABLE & WIRELESS PLC,( 1991 -1993) ) AND HEWLETT PACKARD ( 1994-2004 ) He is an expert in Canadian Business Financing.

Stan has over 40 years of business and finance executive experience. He has been recognized as a credit/financial executive for three of the largest technology companies in the world; Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment and Cable & Wireless. Stan has had in depth, hands on experience in assessing and evaluating thousands of companies that are seeking financing and expansion. He has been instrumental in helping many companies progress through every phase of financing, mergers & acquisitions, sales and marketing and human resources. Stan has worked with startups and public corporations and has many times established the financial wherewithal of organizations before approving millions of dollars of financing facilities and instruments on behalf of his employers.







Tuesday, October 24, 2017

SR&ED Financing : The Doctor Will See You Now!















SR&ED Financing ? Why ? Immediate Cash Flow For Your R&D Capital Recovery Refund Claim




Information on SR&ED financing in Canada. Understanding how your SR ED refund can be monetized and what the benefits are is key to maximizing your r&d capital invesment





SR&ED financing is an immediate financing strategy to convert your filed Canadian SR ED claim into working capital and cash flow for your business.

If your company needs additional cash flow the SR ED financing strategy is a great source of financing and working capital of an ' alternative' nature. Naturally Canadian business owners and financial managers can wait up to 18 months (sometimes longer?) for your non repayable SR ED refund, but if you need the capital you can access those funds now.

SR ED financing is absolutely a boutique, somewhat unknown type of financing in Canada. We recommend that you work with a trusted SR ED advisor who can both maximize your claim (usually 70% of the total value of your claim) and assist you in ensuring the claim can be financed in a relatively short period of time. In claims for our customers that process usually takes 2-3 weeks with your full co operation of course.

Almost everyone agrees that the SR ED grant, which, as noted, is non - repayable! is one of the best government assistance programs in Canada . In our firms opinion both the SR ED grant and the Canadian governments CSBF loan program are the two most clear and viable financing assistance strategies for Canadian businesses.

When we meet with customers to discuss their cash flow and working capital challenges customers always ask us what SR ED financing funds can be used for - the simple answer is any general corporate purpose. We also point out that your claim, in order to be financed, must demonstrate that you have no CRA (the old 'Revenue Canada ') arrears for any government super priorities such as source deductions, GST arrears, etc. We would point out thought that although your claim might not be able to be financed with those arrears in place that you still should file your claim for funding as the claim will reduce or eliminate your arrears, depending on how much is owing to CRA and the value of your filing.

In certain cases we work with customers to pay any of those government arrears out of the financing of the claim - that’s a good thing!

Business that finance SR ED claims clearly understand the value of the program - it gets your firm a significant refund in any research your firm does in products, processes, software, etc .

It is our understanding that over the last couple years the government has sent out cheques for 1.6 Billion dollars in funds for SR ED claims, so:

1. Why wouldn’t your firm consider filing a claim for your funding?

2. Why wouldn’t you consider a SR ED financing strategy for immediate funding of that claim?!


When we meet with customers and ask them what they will use the proceeds of the SR ED financing for they indicate that it will be for very basic working capital requirements - suppliers, payroll, further investment into their R&D processes, purchases of equipment, etc.

SR ED financing is typically in the 70% LTV range, by l t v we mean of course loan to value. That simply means that for every 100.00 of Sr Ed calim you can immediately access, on approval, 70.00 of your total claim. The balance is remitted to our firm once Ottawa and Ontario approve their respective parts of the claim. Naturally there are the financing costs which are typically taken out of that last 30% that is due your firm.

There is no real maximum on the amount of SR ED claim that you can finance, in our own experience claims are generally under one million dollars, but that is not a hard and fast rule.

We referenced working with a good Sr Ed financing advisor who can both maximize your cash out of the claim financing, and steer you through the process as well. In certain instances your bank might have a general security agreement on the claim, (even though they are not financing it?!) so a release is required from the bank, which is generally easy to obtain once we explain what we are trying to achieve.

Many firms ask us what the general criteria are for Sr Ed financing approval. It is essentially a standard business application process; however we clearly note that the emphasis is on the amount and quality of your claim, with significantly less reliance on your balance sheet and income statement. That is because the Sr Ed financing is secured by your actual Sr Ed filing - it’s as simple as that.

Naturally it helps if your overall business outlook is generally positive, or if you are on track to recovering from any setbacks such as a financial loss, or balance sheet issue, etc

Cash flow and working capital needs? Filing SR ED’s? Then consider your Sr Ed financing options!


7 Park Avenue Financial :
South Sheridan Executive Centre
2910 South Sheridan Way
Suite 301
Oakville, Ontario
L6J 7J8

Direct Line
= 416 319 5769

Office = 905 829 2653

Email
= sprokop@7parkavenuefinancial.com

http://www.7parkavenuefinancial.com



Business financing for Canadian Firms , specializing in working capital, cash flow, asset based financing , Equipment Leasing , franchise finance and Cdn. Tax Credit Finance . Founded 2004 - Completed in excess of 100 Million $ of financing for Canadian corporations .



' Canadian Business Financing With The Intelligent Use Of Experience '



ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stan has had a successful career with some of the world’s largest and most successful corporations.
Prior to founding 7 Park Avenue Financial in 2004 his employers over the last 25 years were, ASHLAND OIL, ( 1977-1980) DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION, ( 1980-1990) ) CABLE & WIRELESS PLC,( 1991 -1993) ) AND HEWLETT PACKARD ( 1994-2004 ) He is an expert in Canadian Business Financing.

Stan has over 40 years of business and finance executive experience. He has been recognized as a credit/financial executive for three of the largest technology companies in the world; Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment and Cable & Wireless. Stan has had in depth, hands on experience in assessing and evaluating thousands of companies that are seeking financing and expansion. He has been instrumental in helping many companies progress through every phase of financing, mergers & acquisitions, sales and marketing and human resources. Stan has worked with startups and public corporations and has many times established the financial wherewithal of organizations before approving millions of dollars of financing facilities and instruments on behalf of his employers.