Raising Finance For Your Business: A nuts and bolts guide for SME owners and managers

by Mark Blayney

Helps you understand how much and what sorts of finance and borrowings your business needs (and why); identify what options are open to you when it comes to raising this finance; and, enable you to choose the most appropriate form of finance for both you and your businesses, on the most appropriate terms. Written in clear English, this book demystifies the raising of finance and clears a way through the financial jargon for the SME owner/manager. It will help understand how much and what sorts of finance and borrowings your business needs (and why); identify what options are open to you when it comes to raising this finance; and, enable you to choose the most appropriate form of finance for both you and your businesses, on the most appropriate terms.

Genres: Business

Paperback

First published September 1, 2006

About the author

I'm one of the founding Partners of Galen Partners and have over 20 years experience in both managing SME businesses and advising fellow SME owners.

I trained with PwC where I worked in SME business restructuring in the UK, overseas and on secondment into one of the clearing bank’s business support teams.

I left PwC to go out into industry where I became involved in a business turnaround, before setting up my own consultancy and finance brokerage about 10 years ago, as well as more recently becoming involved in buying manufacturing businesses to turn around.

I'm the author of a number of books for owner managers on a range of business and finance issues and is an accredited turnaround professional as a practising certificate holding member of the Institute for Turnaround.