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Corporate finance: Funding

If you have a good business plan, we will help you get funding for it. The starting point is to be sure that you do indeed have a good business plan. We will subject it to rigorous examination. If there are weaknesses, we will find them before someone else does. That way they can be put right at an early stage, making the business plan genuinely stronger. The plan must be well presented. You may get only one chance to put your case across. We will ensure both strong content and clear, concise presentation.

Lenders and venture capitalists back committed and capable management teams. Ideas alone are no good unless you have the ability to carry them into effect. If there is a gap in your management team, our executive recruitment service can help to plug it. Sometimes you do not need, say, a full time finance director. We have a number of executives on our books who prefer to work on a portfolio of part time appointments. Perhaps your management team has all the necessary skills but lacks business experience. A non-executive director may give a funder the confidence they would otherwise lack. We can recruit one for you.

Financial forecasts will form part of your business plan. We can prepare them for you, using professional software, showing monthly profit and loss, cash flow, and balance sheets. These forecasts will show whether the business can support any borrowings or provide a suitable return on any capital invested. They will form the basis on which we can construct the right funding package.

There are many sources of business finance, including: grants, bank borrowing, invoice discounting, asset finance, commercial mortgages, business angels, and venture capitalists. All have their own criteria, including: size, location, industry, stage of business development, time frame, and required return. The art lies in matching the proposition to the source and, usually, devising the right combination of different sources. You need professional guidance. Cassons’ corporate finance team are here to provide it.

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