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Identify potential cashflow problems
How to use cashflow forecasts and business plans to avoid financial problems.
How changing market conditions can affect your business
How competitors and market conditions can affect business cashflow.
Signs that your customers are in financial trouble
The importance of staying aware of your customers' financial situation.
Working with banks and other lenders
How to use your bank and bank account to improve your cashflow and avoid problems.
Keep business finance forecasts up to date
Why and how you should assess and maintain your budgets and business plans on a regular basis.
Equity finance
Overview of what equity finance is and how to find it.
Equity finance: the equity gap
What the equity gap is, how you could avoid it, and guidance on Enterprise Capital Funds.
Six sources of equity finance
Outline of the various sources of equity finance available to businesses.
Ensure customers pay you on time
Actions you can take if a payment you are due is late.
When does a payment become late?
The point at which a payment becomes late depends on whether you have agreed a credit period with the customer.
Tips to ensure customers pay you on time
Ways to actively reduce or eliminate bad debt among your customers.
When to charge interest on late payments
You have a statutory right to charge interest on any money owed to your business.
Factoring and invoice discounting
How to improve cashflow by selling your invoices to a third party.
The cost of factoring and invoice discounting
Credit management fees and interest.
Invoice discounting
Invoice discounters offer an advance on the total amount owed to you by customers.
Advantages of credit checking customers
Why credit checking current or potential customers is so important.
Signs your business is overtrading
Be mindful of the symptoms of overtrading so you can try to prevent it.
Causes of cashflow problems in your business
Common causes of cashflow problems including late customer payments and seasonal demand.
Crowdfunding
What is crowdfunding and how can it be used to finance a business.
Decide whether to lease or buy assets
The pros and cons of leasing and buying outright.