Funding Readiness
What a Lender Reads Into Your Business Bank Statements
Owners applying for financing tend to focus almost entirely on the parts of their file that feel official: the tax returns, the...
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Owners applying for financing tend to focus almost entirely on the parts of their file that feel official: the tax returns, the...
Cash Flow Management
A contractor I worked with for years had a revenue problem that was not really a revenue problem. His invoices were fine.
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Three people who have sat on different sides of a funding decision: a former underwriter who spent a decade deciding which loan applications got approved, a small business owner who has borrowed through a term loan, two lines of credit, and one merchant cash advance she still warns people about, and a bookkeeper who sees a client's cash flow problems months before the owner does. Every article carries a byline, and nothing runs that the writer has not actually dealt with.