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Financial Planning for Prosperity

April 15, 2013
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Financing Cash Flow Peaks And Valleys

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For many businesses, financing cash flow for their business can be like riding a continuous roller coaster.

Sales are up, then they do down. Margins are good, then they flatten out. Cash flow can swing back and forth like an EKG graph of a heart attack.

So how do you go about financing cash flow for these types of businesses?

First, you need to accurately know and manage your monthly fixed costs. Regardless of what happens during the year, you need to be on top of what amount of funds will be required to cover off the recurring and scheduled operating costs that will occur whether you make a sale or not. Doing this monthly for a full twelve month cycle provides a basis for cash flow decision making. Continue Reading →

April 15, 2013
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What You Should Know About Dealer Finance

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Car finance has become big business. A huge number of new and used car buyers in the UK are making their vehicle purchase on finance of some sort. It might be in the form of a bank loan, finance from the dealership, leasing, credit card, the trusty ‘Bank of Mum & Dad’, or myriad other forms of finance, but relatively few people actually buy a car with their own cash anymore.

Urers and dealers claiming that anywhere between 40% and 87% of car purchases are today being made on finance of some sort, it is not surprising that there are lots of people jumping on the car finance bandwagon to profit from buyers’ desires to have the newest, flashiest car available within their monthly cashflow limits.

The appeal of financing a car is very straightforward; you can buy a car which costs a lot more than you can afford up-front, but can (hopefully) manage in small monthly chunks of cash over a period of time. The problem with car finance is that many buyers don’t realise that they usually end up paying far more than the face value of the car, and they don’t read the fine print of car finance agreements to understand the implications of what they’re signing up for.

Financing through the dealership

For many people, financing the car through the dealership where you are buying the car is very convenient. There are also often national offers and programs which can make financing the car through the dealer an attractive option.

What is a Hire Purchase?

An HP is quite like a mortgage on your house; you pay a deposit up-front and then pay the rest off over an agreed period (usually 18-60 months). Once you have made your final payment, the car is officially yours. This is the way that car finance has operated for many years, but is now starting to lose favour against the PCP option below.

What is a Personal Contract Purchase?

A PCP is often given other names by manufacturer finance companies (eg – BMW Select, Volkswagen Solutions, Toyota Access, etc.), and is very popular but more complicated than an HP. Most new car finance offers advertised these days are PCPs, and usually a dealer will try and push you towards a PCP over an HP because it is more likely to be better for them.This gives you three options:

1) Give the car back. You won’t get any money back, but you won’t have to pay out the remainder. This means that you have effectively been renting the car for the whole time.

2) Pay out the remaining amount owed (the GMFV) and keep the car. Given that this amount could be many thousands of pounds, it is not usually a viable option for most people (which is why they were financing the car in the first place), which usually leads to…

3) Part-exchange the car for a new (or newer) one. The dealer will assess your car’s value and take care of the finance payout. If your car is worth more than the GMFV, you can use the difference (equity) as a deposit on your next car.

 

What is a Lease Purchase?

An LP is a bit of a hybrid between an HP and a PCP. You have a deposit and low monthly payments like a PCP, with a large final payment at the end of the agreement. However, unlike a PCP, this final payment (often called a balloon) is not guaranteed. This means that if your car is worth less than the amount owing and you want to sell/part-exchange it, you would have to pay out any difference (called negative equity) before even thinking about paying a deposit on your next car.

Read the fine print

What is absolutely essential for anyone buying a car on finance is to read the contract and consider it carefully before signing anything. Plenty of people make the mistake of buying a car on finance and then end up being unable to make their monthly payments. Given that your finance period may last for the next five years, it is critical that you carefully consider what may happen in your life over those next five years.

April 15, 2013
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Lawsuit Financing Companies Use Critical Documents For Research

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Companies that provide lawsuit financing have traditionally needed mountains of documentation in order to process a case. The information needed includes basic facts about the situation or incident and the person filing the claim. A great deal of research, background checks and information gathering is necessary to determine whether a plaintiff in a case is eligible for financing. Recent developments in technology have made the process less time consuming and more environmentally friendly for lawsuit financing companies to do the necessary work.

Document Production

A lawsuit involves a great deal of information being passed back and forth between plaintiffs and their attorneys. This allows the lawyer to become well-versed in all of the case’s facts so that they can make the best presentation possible for the client. This exchange of information includes police reports, insurance company correspondence, witness statements, financial documentation and, for medical-malpractice and personal injury suits, medical records from healthcare providers. Client communication and production of documents to the lawsuit financing company are also very important. This helps the company determine whether the case is viable and a reasonable risk to produce a lawsuit advance that will likely be paid back. Most companies have a contingency in the agreement that if the plaintiff does not win the case or receive a settlement, then they do not have to pay back the money. There is thorough review of these documents that are produced by the plaintiff to the legal funding company in the hopes of receiving financing. Medical records alone can sometimes fill dozens of boxes in documentation.

Reproduction
Naturally, the funding company cannot keep the documents, as they are needed by the attorneys for the lawsuit itself. Some of the items may even be personal property of the plaintiff, and they would like it back. Instead, the documentation must be copied and returned as quickly as possible. Due to new technology, this no longer involves photocopying documents on paper. The use of email and electronic correspondence requires very little, if any, paper to be used. Medical records are also more readily available in electronic formats than they used to be. Rather than producing carton after carton of paperwork, the client may come up with several DVDs or CD-ROMs containing the pertinent information. When this is not possible, the staff at the lawsuit funding company can scan the images to create electronic files. These are much easier to store. They take up less space, are not affected by moisture and are readily transportable from room to room or location to location as the finance team does its research on the case. A more environmentally-friendly approach, this is becoming the norm, rather than the innovation.