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Impress your bank manager! How to read your balance sheet
If you want to do well as a small business owner, it would help you if you could understand the basics of how to read a balance sheet. The balance sheet is an indispensable part of a business accounting information and is essentially a snapshot of a company at a specific point in time. The balance sheet lets you know what a company owns (“assets”) and what it owes (“liabilities”). It will also tell you how much the business is worth.

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Equity Financing
Most small or growth-stage businesses use equity financing in a limited way. As with debt financing, most of the time additional equity comes from non-professional investors such as friends, relatives, employees, customers or industry colleagues.
Types of Finance
In essence there are three main sources of money to fund a business venture: * Equity (or capital). * Debt. * Grants.

Financing Corporate Growth in Ghana: The Role of the Stock Market
We examine how listed corporations in Ghana finance their growth and to what extent do they rely on external finance relative to internal finance. As companies expand through the acquisition of assets they have choices to make in how that growth is financed. Past earnings can be retained as a source of internal finance or be paid to shareholders as dividends. External sources of finance include both the issuance of new equity (external equity) and various debts instruments (external debt).
UNDERSTANDING FINANCIAL AND OPERATING RATIOS
The analysis of ratios can and will prevent most business bankruptcies. The analysis of ratios can and will maximize your company's profit, sales, productivity potential. This article includes 31 of the most important ratios worth tracking. Each ratio includes the formula (so you don't need to go to your accountant)plus what the ratio could mean to your business.
Start-up Financing & Equity: What is Dilution?
Equity dilution reapportions a stockholder’s percentage of equity (stock) in a company. Here’s a scenario to demonstrate how equity dilution works.
Financing 101 for Entrepreneurs - Debt vs. Equity or Both?
Small business owners can choose from two basic types of financing- debt and equity. There are advantages and disadvantages of each type that may be used for different purposes.

Debt Consolidation and Refinancing – Is it Right for You?
Debt consolidation and refinancing is a common desire of many Canadians these days. One reason may be because of high levels of debt, but beyond that, refinancing is simply a sensible idea. Making the effort to refinance by taking equity out of your home during a time like this when interest rates are high could save you up to 17 percent every month, just on interest!
How to Determine Your Business Success with Financial Ratio
If you’ve ever wondered how well your business is doing - truly doing - one way to clear up the mystery is to use financial ratios. Financial ratios are used by accountants and bankers to evaluate everything from your current income ratio, to debts, to inventory, and even your return on sales or capital investments. A lower ratio means a more severe problem. Another important assessment step in financial ratios is estimating your debt equity ratio. The debt equity ratio compares debt and equity and the two types of capitalization.
Do I Offer Debt or Equity to Raise Capital
What's the difference between debt & equity?
Money Speaks - Bankers Jargon! Doesn't anyone speak English?
In simple terms, debt to equity explains the financial health of the company. For example; suppose your company has a debt to equity ratio of 4 to 1. To a banker, that means there is $4.00 in debt compared to $1.00 invested in the company. In other words, your lenders own more of your company than you do. So, if you were asked to lend money to your company at this type of ratio, would you?
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