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Business Cash Flow Pain ? Here’s Some Solutions
OVERVIEW – Information on accounts receivable financing in Canada. Factoring and other cash flow solutions can enhance your chances of business success when traditional financing is not unlimited!
Let’s examine why this business financing strategy works and how you can best assess if a factoring receivable solution is the best choice for your firm.
We also point out to clients that the Canadian landscape for this type of financing is somewhat different from the U.S. models of this type of financing, and one of the most important decisions you can make after choosing to enter into such a strategy is simply picking the best partner for your particular needs .
Almost every business study or report you read this days has business owners and financial mgr's bemoaning the lack of business financing and funding for their business .
Business prospects have clearly improved, but business access to capital has been very slow to catch up. Most Canadian business owners and financial managers turn to those banks when they need financing; However if your firm doesn’t have very decent financials, or isn't generating profits and operating cash flow your chances of getting the funding you need to run and grow the business is low .
So we come full circle to how does factoring work and why are it a potential solution for your firm. It works in a very simply manner - you sell you invoices, either one at a time, all at once, or regular periodically at your choice . The key word is selling. When you sell something you get cash, and factoring receivables is your method of obtaining immediate cash.
The complexity of factoring, if we can call it that, is simply how it works on a day to day basis within your own business model, and more importantly, how it affects your customer base. Using traditional factoring as our explanation your firm issues an invoice, you are advanced immediately approx. 90% of the funds, i.e. almost the same day!, and when your customer pays you get the rest of our funds immediately, less a financing charge .
That aforementioned financing charge becomes the most important point of focus for many of our clients given that factoring rates in Canada on a monthly basis range from 1-3% per month.
When clients address that issue of cost we point out to them that if they have solid gross margins, can turn over receivables, and have the ability to purchase more effectively with the new cash that the cost of factoring inevitably becomes somewhat of a non event, based on the fact that this facility provides you ‘unlimited’ working capital on a long term basis.
KEY POINT - We strongly recommend Confidential Receivable Financing/Factoring for firms that want to bill and collect their own receivables and manage their cash flow needs.
In Canada the challenge becomes finding the firm that works best for you with respect to the receivable strategy we have outlined. Many of the small nuances around how factoring is marketed, explained, and works on a daily basis becomes the bone of contention for our customers.
Other short term cash flow and working capital solutions are also available inside the world of asset based financing, where ' factoring' resides. These include:
Merchant advances for retailers
SR&ED Tax Credit Loans
Non bank asset based credit lines which combine borrowing power around your total A/R, inventory and equipment
Seek out a trusted, credible, and experienced business financing advisor who can guide you through the factoring maze relative to price, size of facility, and most importantly, how the facility works on a daily basis to augment your cash flow and working capital.
Stan Prokop - founder of 7 Park Avenue Financial –
Originating business financing for Canadian companies , specializing in working capital, cash flow, asset based financing . In business 13 years - Completed in excess of 100 Million $$ of financing for Canadian corporations . Core competancies include receivables financing, asset based lending, working capital, equipment finance, franchise finance and tax credit financing. Info & Contact Details :
http://www.7parkavenuefinancial.com
7 Park Avenue Financial
2910 South Sheridan Way
Suite 301
Oakville, Ontario
L6J 7J8
Office = 905 829 2653
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.
Stan Prokop
