Essential Business Finance

Acquiring, funding, growing and selling your business can be a financial maze. Essential Business Finance guides you through step by step, giving practical advice on all the financial issues encountered in the life of a business. Expert author Paul Barrow highlights key issues by using case studies of businesses in various fields – both successes and failures -as each one grows and takes on different forms of finance. Topics covered include: raising start-up finance and early funding: arranging growth finance (both equity and debt);raising money through public offerings; finding, negotiating, buying and funding acquisitions; selling the business. Dealing with both the theory and the reality of business finance, with helpful checklists and sample documents, Essential Business Finance is a jargon-free guide that will help you to create, maximise and realise the value of your business