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Current State Of Entrepreneurship Financing Mechanisms

Table 1:

Name of procedure Brief description Benefits Disadvantages
1 2 3 4
Spontaneous financing Providing discounts to customers for shorter settlement periods 1) An inexpensive way to obtain funds;2) benefit for the buyer: does not require collateral, long grace periods;3) benefit for the supplier: reduction of the payment period. 1) For the buyer: the amount of bank interest may be higher than the received discount;2) for the supplier: careful calculation of the discount size is required.
Factoring Activities of a particular organization for the recovery of funds from customer debtors. 1) The ability to immediately receive a payment for the shipped goods, without waiting for payment from the buyer;2) acceleration of working capital;3) covering a significant part of the risks by the bank. 1) Fee for processing documents;2) factoring commission;3) interest in the use of funds provided by the bank to the client immediately after the shipment of the goods.
Forfaiting Transaction for the forfeiter to acquire a financial obligation of a borrower to a creditor.All the risks associated with the debt obligation are transferred to the forfeiter without the right of circulation to the seller’s obligations. 1) Simplification of the balance sheet of possible liabilities;2) improvement of liquidity;3) the absence of risks and costs associated with the activities of credit bodies. 1) Relatively high costs of transferring risks to forfeiter;2) the bank in the securities market can sell loan documents; 3) the duration of the transaction.
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