Why Cash Flow Finance is the CFOs Best Friend
As a Chief Financial Officer, one of the hardest parts of the job can be managing cash flow. Everyone looks to you when bills need to be paid, but predicting when your own company’s invoices will be settled is not easy. Business plans rarely look at cash flow in a real, everyday sense, so your […]
How Mining Services Companies Can Expand
Is there ever a stable year for commodity prices? No, but when government sources in mining states are talking about a rollercoaster ride… there is a definite opportunity for the many businesses who supply the mining sector! The Government of Western Australia noted in its recent statistical bulletin that “ccommodity markets were on a rollercoaster […]
How Invoice Finance can Help Struggling Businesses
As a business owner, admitting that your business is struggling can be the hardest thing. But if your business really is in danger – or is going backwards in any way – it’s essential that you assess the situation rationally. There is almost always a solution if you know where to look. Two of the […]
New Year’s Tips for Your Business in 2023
Cometh the New Year, cometh the tips for a healthier life, business, relationships and garden. And a few more too. The old adage has it that most resolutions will be abandoned by February 1, but for business owners that might not be the case. There is a real value in taking a new look at […]
Business Funding has Changed – the Options are Much Better Now
Everyone knows that bank lending to small business has been on the decline in the last decade. What is less clear are the causes and effects – and whether business owners themselves even want a bank loan. Recent statistics sight just how most business owners think cash flow finance is better! If the drought in […]
Invoice Finance helps You Relax at Christmas
Are you looking forward to the Christmas break? Or are you, like the majority of small business owners, dreading the effect that the annual hiatus has on your company? If you run a successful business, you should certainly enjoy a well-earned break: With suitable planning and a smart invoice finance plan, you could. The problem […]
How to Banish Bad Debts
Bad debts are a nightmare for small and medium-sized businesses. You put in all the work for an order, incur all the costs – and pay them up front – and then your invoice goes unpaid: in the worst cases, this can put your business in serious financial difficulties. Depending on the size of your […]
Using invoice finance for successful cash-flow management in the manufacturing and fabrication sectors
The manufacturing and fabrication industries face unique challenges when it comes to cash flow, due to traditionally long invoice payment cycles, extended project time frames, and lengthy manufacturing periods. After delivery, a typical payments process can take 60 days or more to be made, so without large cash reserves, businesses in these sectors would find […]
Wholesalers Can Enjoy Peak Season with Cash Flow Finance
Just as the run-up to Christmas is peak season for retailers, so the run-up to the run-up is a bonanza for the wholesalers who supply them. However, as with retailers, this sudden spike in demand can cause a few problems. As a wholesale business owner, you know when peak demand is going to be: it’s […]
Invoice Finance is Helping SMEs to Grow
Despite trade wars, global slowdowns, and a supposed lack of funding, Australian businesses have clocked up an impressive growth streak since the financial crisis. That is just as well, because Small and Medium businesses are the lifeblood of the economy. The Australian government’s own figures illustrate their contribution nicely: between 2013 and 2018, the number […]