Reviewing key aspects of your small business can help you realign your goals and resources to help prepare for a successful year and new opportunities. Prepare for 2022 with this checklist. The three main financial documents to prepare are a balance sheet that lists your assets and liabilities, an income statement that lists [...]
If you are a small business and looking for funding, you are likely going to come across phrases like “short-term finance” or “long-term finance”. But what exactly does that mean? When do you use each? In short, short-term financing supports the company's day-to-day activities. Long-term financing typically funds fixed assets. Here are key differences between [...]
There are many reasons a company might turn to factoring or invoice buying for working capital. Recently, we had a food distributor looking for additional working capital due to growth. Challenge: The company wanted to grow and expand into additional markets; however, it did not have the working capital to buy [...]
Factoring is used by companies for many different reasons. One reason to use factoring is lack of working capital due to timing of customer payments. Challenge: A common problem many staffing companies encounter is the timing of cash flow. Many times, companies have weekly payroll; however, their customers pay on a monthly basis. [...]
We are proud to announce that Olivia Ventola has been nominated as one of City Business' 2020 Money Makers! Money Makers recognizes financial professionals whose fiscal work has set the pace for their company and the region. Olivia Ventola is currently vice president of Business Development at Cash Flow Resources. She has been with [...]
The coronavirus pandemic continues to impact business activity and consumer behavior. JEDCO and the Jefferson Chamber of Commerce teamed up to offer a Prosper Jefferson webinar on Small Business Financing during the Pandemic. The webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, August 5th, at 10:00 am and will cover the following topics: Current lending landscape in [...]
Cash Flow Resources ("CFR") will be participating in Meet the Lenders Event, hosted by SBA and JEDCO tomorrow, March 4th. This event is aimed at helping small companies learn how to raise capital for their business. The Jefferson Parish Economic Development Commission (JEDCO) is an independent, yet complementary arm of Jefferson [...]
CFR continues to help small businesses by providing customized solutions that fits their needs. At the end of 2019, CFR funded the following two deals: $1MM factoring line for a start-up national industrial turnaround plant contractor The contractor's prior large national factoring company abruptly changed the way they handled their [...]
Kevin Laborde, President of CFR, recently gave a presentation at GNOEA's Business Presentation Meeting. In addition to covering what CFR does for its clients, he described other alternative financing products in the marketplace; how they work, what they cost and appropriate ways to use them. GNOEA is an association of firms and companies that do [...]
Celebrating our Bank One Days! Prior to working at Cash Flow Resources (CFR), many of us spent time working at Bank One Louisiana, which later became JP Morgan Chase. At CFR, we draw on our collective years of banking experience to help clients access capital and guidance, allowing their business [...]
