1. Why does Apex find AccessLine to be an attractive investment? What are the risks? Basically‚ Apex was attracted by the new technology and the unique business model of AccessLine. And‚ it was at the early stage and was not invested heavily by other professional investors. The positive cash flow was an important factor that makes Apex felt confident. It means that the market actually existed and customers understand the concept of technology‚ reducing the entry risk. With the domain knowledge
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of the industry average but final action has not been taken. Covington did not expect the declining profit margin on sales and the falling rate of return on assets. Rather‚ she had expectations that these both items would increase because of the increased level of efficiency due to modernization and expansion program. Later she realized the cause of decline of these items were that the company did not take the cash discounts in 2006 on all purchases on terms 3/10‚ net 30. Due to this‚ the cost increased
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Introduction: Apex Investment Partners was founded in 1987 by James A. Johnson and the First Analysis Corporation. In its eight-year life‚ the VC had raised three funds. The two first which are already closed had‚ together‚ a committed capital of around $70M. There were mainly concentrated in four areas: • • • • Telecommunication‚ information technology and software. Environmental and industrial productivity-related technologies. Consumer products and specialty retail. Health-care and related technologies
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SHORT-TERM FINANCING & SMEs Seminar Paper Presented to MPSTME‚ NMIMS In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree (MBA-Tech) By Sameer Tayal 2012 Page | 1 Acknowledgement I am grateful to Mr. R. C. Agarwal the mentor of the Seminar Paper for giving me the opportunity to write a Seminar Paper on the topic “Short-Term Financing & SMEs”. I thank him for his suggestions & guidance throughout the Seminar paper with full attention and dedication. Page | 2 Abstract
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2. AccessLine’s initial financing came in the form of strategic alliances. In 1989‚ McCaw Cellular Communication invested in AccessLine‚ providing a considerable amount of their intial capital. This funding secured the strategic partnership between AccessLine and McCaw Cellular. This launched further alliances between AccessLine and other phone company carriers‚ in which AccessLine granted them an exclusive franchise in the market for a set fee. The carriers were permitted to market AccessLine’s
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Short Term financing/ Financing Current Assets As a human being‚ we do have needs- food‚ shelter‚ clothing‚ and wants- laptop‚ cellphone‚ electronic gadgets‚ and the like. Parents work very hard in order to earn more money to give their children what they want. This is how they finance their everyday necessities and wants. This is just like in companies wherein they will do every means they can think of just to finance their everyday operations. The need for determining the proper source
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Short-Term Financing Short-term financing have some advantages that extend financial arrangements. Short-term funds interest rates are much lower than long-term funds. There are many different sources of short-term financing that companies use to better fit their business and budget. I will list and briefly explain the source and why a company may choose over the other. 1. Bad credit: offers secure and unsecure loans to a business. 2. Trade credit: a line of credit extended for 30 to 60 days
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INTERMEDIATE TERM FINANCING Intermediate term financing refers to borrowing with repayment schedules of more than one year but less than ten years. In contrast ‘short –term financing has a repayment schedule of less than one year‚ while long-term financing matures in ten years or longer. ADVANTAGES OF INTERMEDIATE TERM FINANCING Intermediate term financing offers the following advantages to the firm; 1. It provides a useful alternative when the firm is unable to continue expanding assets with
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Short Term Finance What is Short Term Financing? Short term financing is basically refers to additional money for a business which requires for running its business for short terms which is usually a period of one year. There are some sources of short term finance which are as following:- Overdraft Overdraft bank basically means a facility that the bank provides to its customers where the customer is given permission to draw money from the banks in surplus of their balance in their heir
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ways of financing the purchase and if you can afford to pay back the money you’re planning to borrow. Borrowing money becomes a problem if you borrow too much – that is‚ more than you can afford. It’s a problem if you borrow to where you can’t do other things or if you need to borrow to pay your regular monthly expenses. Just like your own money‚ you have to stay in control of the money you borrow from others. Borrowing money doesn’t have to be a bad thing. It can help. Borrowing just has to be done
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