We all know how important maintaining a good cash flow is, but how often do we consider how external funding can help solve problems? I find that many business owners underestimate how profitable it ...

Companies facing a cash-flow squeeze and slow-paying customers often sell their invoices or accounts receivable to specialized companies called factors. The factor advances most of the invoice amount ...

There are trillions of dollars of trade credit outstanding in the U.S. economy today, and at least a portion of it is undoubtedly creating an unnecessary cash flow burden for many small- to ...

Jim Seward of the University of Wisconsin-Madison: "You’re not increasing your debt at all, so your credit quality actually looks better by factoring." Factoring can be an attractive alternative for ...