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Navigating the business loan : guidelines for financiers, small-business owners, and entrepreneurs /
The need for ""back to basics"" information about credit risk has not disappeared; in fact, it has grown among lenders and investors who have no easy ways to learn about their clients. This short and readable book guides readers through core risk/performance issues. Readers learn...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Academic Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of contents; Foreword; Chapter 1
- Business Structures and Funding Sources; Short review of business structures; Selecting a financing source; What to consider before you apply; Review Credit Reports; Prepare a SWOT Matrix; Check for Red Flags; Documentation generally required for a small business loan application; Chapter 2
- How Banks Evaluate Your Loan Application; Primary evaluation; Business Operations; Company Attributes; Industry Attributes; Management; Bank Relationship; Financial Reporting; Analytic Evaluation; Intention (Purpose).
- RepaymentSafeguards; Collateral; Guarantees; Loan Covenants; Perspective: how lenders put it all together; First Stage: Risk Versus Rewards Analysis; Second Stage: Acknowledging the Customer's Strategic Agenda; Third Stage: Satisfy the Lender's Agenda; Chapter 3
- Is Your Financial Information Accurate and Reliable?; The auditor's role; How accountants record transaction data; Historical Cost; Accounting Standards as Applied to Revenue Realization; The Matching Principle; Consistency; Disclosure; Objectivity; The significance of footnotes; Accounting for contingencies.
- Classification of ContingenciesProduct Warranties or Defects; Litigation Contingencies; Environmental Contingencies; Risk of Catastrophic Losses; Direct and Indirect Guarantees; Financial instruments with off balance sheet risk; Asset Securitization; Futures Contracts; Pensions; Discretionary Items; Research and Development; Two significant auditing storm signals; Changing Auditors; Creative Accounting; Chapter 4
- Ratios Every Business Should Monitor; What are ratios?; Peer Group or Industry Comparisons; Ratio Trends; Ratio Workshop; Jones Designs, Inc.; Liquidity Ratios; Current Ratio.
- Quick Ratio (Also Known As Acid Test)Net Working Capital; Activity or Turnover Ratios; Average Collection Period; Bad Debt Expense/Sales; Inventory Turnover; The Fixed Asset Turnover; Working Capital Turnover; Total Asset Turnover; Average Settlement Period or Accounts Payable Turnover; Profitability Ratios; The Gross Profit Margin; Selling General and Administration Expenses/Sales; Effective Tax Rate; The Net Margin; Return on Net Worth; Return on Total Assets; Dividend Payout Ratio; Financial Leverage Ratios; Debt-to-Equity and Debt-to-Total Assets Ratios; Times Interest Earned.
- The Fixed Payment Coverage RatioDebt Affordability Ratio; Cash Flow Coverage2; Growth Ratios; Sales Growth Rate; Profit Growth Rate; Sources of comparative ratios; Chapter 5
- Financing Your Season; Examples of seasonal businesses; How a successful seasonal cycle works; Unsuccessful seasonal cycles; Examples of successful seasonal cycles; Seasonal lending analysis; Preparing a cash budget (refer to Acme's cash budget)1; Exercise: preparing a cash budget; Interim seasonal ratio analysis; (Cash + Accounts Receivable)/(Short-Term Bank Debt + Trade Payables).