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Sources Of Finance Flashcards

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What are the Internal Sources of Finance? (3)

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Owners Capital
Selling Assets
Retained Profit

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Benefit of Internal Finances? (4)

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  1. If Business use (example) they won’t incur in any debt.
  2. This is because they don’t have to make interest or loan capital repayments
  3. Reducing Outflows meaning they’ll likely improve net cash flow
  4. Able to pay suppliers and bills without selling non current assets or going into debt
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Drawback Of Internal Finance? (3)

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  1. If business use (example) they will limit the amount of capital they can raise
  2. Limiting expansion and reducing scale
  3. Lower Sales Volume, Revenue and Profit
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What are the main sources of external finance?

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Loan
Overdraft
Business Angel/Venture Capitalist
Peer to peer funding
Crowdfunding
Share Capital

Others: Leasing, Hire Purchase, Trade Credit, Grants.

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Benefit of Peer To Peer Funding? (2)

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  1. Can source finance without giving up control
  2. Can invest into R&D in the long term to then differentiate allowing an increase in price without fall in demand
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Drawback of Peer to peer funding? (3)

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  1. Have to pay capital back with interest increasing outflows
  2. Leading to a Lower net cash flow
  3. Unable to pay for bills or liabilities
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Benefit of Venture Capitalist?

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  1. Gain experience and support of finance
  2. Increases sales volume and orders to suppliers to reduce variable costs and selling price
  3. To increase revenue
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Drawback of Venture Capitalist? (4)

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  1. Have to give equity and profit to the VC.
  2. Lose profit to reinvest into things like R&D
  3. Due to them not being able to afford researchers they can’t differentiate and be innovative.
  4. Lower revenue and profit
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Crowdfunding - Benefit (2)

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  1. Don’t require interest payments leading to lower outflows
  2. This will increase net cash flow able to pay suppliers and not sell non current assets….
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Crowdfunding- Drawback (3)

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  1. Have to give rewards to investors
  2. Increase Outflows that’ll lead to a lower net cash flow
  3. Possibly having to lower selling price to increase revenue or sell assets
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Loan - Benefit (2)

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  1. Increased Inflows and no need to share equity
  2. Can keep more retained profit due to no dividend payments to then reinvest the capital into…
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Loan - Drawback (3)

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  1. Requires Interest Payments increasing outflows leading to a negative net cash flow
  2. Forced to sell assets to pay bills for suppliers
  3. Disruption to operations
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Share Capital - Benefit (3)

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  1. Don’t Require interest payments reducing outflows leading to negative net cash flow
  2. No need to sell assets as they can pay suppliers
  3. Avoiding Failure
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Share Capital - Drawback (3)

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  1. Requires Dividend payments reducing retained profit levels and investment into (example)
  2. This will reduce sales volume and inflows leading to lower net cash flow
  3. Forced to sell assets due to less cash reserves to pay bills and suppliers
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Overdrafts - Benefit (2)

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  1. Doesn’t require monthly payments and can be paid off when the business chooses
  2. Reducing the Outflows avoiding the negative net cash flow and paying suppliers with no failure
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Overdraft - Drawback (3)

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  1. Significant interest payments compared to a loan
  2. Increasing the fixed costs when it’s due
  3. Operating Loss and less RP into R&D to differentiate
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Leasing - Benefit (2)

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  1. Have use of non current assets leading to reduced outflows
  2. Improved net cash flow able to be more attractive to raise more capital for the future
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Leasing - Drawback (3)

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  1. Regular Repayments
  2. Increased expenses as the property may be more expensive
  3. Reduced Retained Profits to spend on…
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Trade Credit - Benefit (3)

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  1. No immediate outflows when buying the product
  2. Can use materials to sell to increase inflows
  3. Improved net cash flow and…
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Drawback - Trade Credit (3)

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  1. Limited amount of time with potential cash problems when payment is due
  2. Increased chance of penalties like fines which will increase expenses
  3. Therefore Operating loss
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Grants - Benefit (2)

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  1. No interest repayments reducing outflows increasing net cash flow
  2. Able to keep up with suppliers and avoid failure
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Grants - Drawback

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  1. Only used for a specific purpose (example)
  2. Limits Capital resulting in
  3. Less R&D for Differentiation or
  4. Unable to increase assets for increased sales volume

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