Factoring your accounts receivable not only increases cash flow, but provides numerous other benefits and opportunities.
Advantages of Factoring
- Fast & Easy
- Improve Cash Flow
- Leverage Off Customers Credit
- No Consideration of a Business's Credit Rating
- Continuous Source of Operating Cash
- Client Gets Detailed Management Reports
- Faster Payment
- Not Creating Debt – no monthly payments or balloon
- No Personal Guarantees
- No Geographical Limitations
- Reduces Overhead — helps business downsize so they can concentrate on growing their business
- Greater Operating Efficiency
- Off Balance Sheet Financing
- The "Time Value" of Money
- Retain Control of the Business – don't give up equity
- Reduces Bad Debt
- Professional Collections
- Offer Credit Terms to Customers
- Meet Increasing Sales Demands
- Stop Offering Early Payment Discounts
Reasons for Factoring
With the advantage of positive cash flow, factoring clients:
- increase working capital by establishing an additional, ongoing source of cash
- increase cash turnover and pay bills, taxes, etc., on time
- get cash for operating expenses when they need it
- get cash when they can't get financing elsewhere
- avoid giving up equity or control, as they would in traditional financing
- protect & improve their credit rating
- avoid long-term debt
- avoid repayment of debt at inopportune times
- take advantage of trade discounts by having the cash available to pay up-front for supplies, equipment, etc.
- take advantage of volume discounts and other spur of the moment opportunities that require cash
- get instant credit reports on prospective customers and the continuous monitoring of the credit status of all their customers
Who Needs Factoring?
- Small and medium size businesses, including new businesses and women and minority owned businesses, that can't get conventional financing
- Any business that needs additional operating capital
- Businesses that want to expand and need a cash flow injection
- Businesses with tax liens (or problems they are trying to work out with a taxing authority before a lien is put into place)
- Businesses that are working through either Chapter 11 or a bankruptcy
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