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Assessing your cash needs: creditors and debtors
Debtor days ratios and creditor days ratios estimate how long you take to pay debts and customers take to pay you.
Example of overtrading
A case study of a situation of overtrading and the potential disaster it causes.
Avoid the problems of overtrading
How expanding businesses can match production and order cycles using gearing, working capital or quick ratio tests.
Compare balance sheets to assess business performance
Use simple balance sheet comparisons to assess business performance internally and against competitors.
Interpreting balance sheet figures
Liabilities, assets, debtors and intangibles can all give you a picture of a business' financial health.
Business accounting periods
The balance sheet portrays a business' performance over the financial year or accounting period.
What is in a balance sheet?
Fixed and current assets and liabilities are important contents of a balance sheet.
Use accounting ratios to assess business performance
Liquidity, solvency, efficiency and profitability ratio analysis can be used to assess business performance.
The relationship between balance sheets and profit and loss accounts
How transactions in the profit and loss account can affect balance sheet entries and vice versa.
Business angels
How business angels can fund investment in young and growing businesses.
Different types of commercial mortgage lenders
Different types of lender in the commercial mortgage field.
How to secure business angel investment
Preparing your business to apply for business angel funding.
Finding a commercial mortgage lender
Search for the right mortgage lender for your needs.
How to find business angel networks
Finding a business angel investor using a business angel network.
Writing a business plan for a European bank
What to include in any business plan used to apply for financing from a European bank.
Business budgeting
The importance of managing a budget as part of your business planning and how to create one.
What should be included in a business budget?
Projected costs, revenues, cashflow and profit are some of the elements to include in a budget.
Creating a business budget: key steps
Managing the financial side of your business, including advice on how to create a budget.
Creating a budget for your business
How to create, review and manage a budget for your business, and what elements to include in it.
Budgets and business planning
Definition of a budget and the advantages of using one, including clear allocation of resources.