#working-capital
Working Capital
Manage working capital for business operations
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Факторинг на фактури срещу финансиране на вземания: Кое превръща неплатените фактури в пари по-бързо?
Факторингът на фактури продава вашите вземания на фактор, който събира от вашия клиент; финансирането на вземания е заем, който залага същите фактури като обезпечение, докато вие запазвате собствеността и контрола. Сравнете разходите (и двата често се изчисляват на годишна база между 15-48%), отчитането в баланса, контакта с клиента и как да осчетоводите всеки от тях.
The Cash Conversion Cycle Explained: How Long Your Money Is Actually Tied Up
The cash conversion cycle (CCC = DIO + DSO − DPO) measures how many days cash stays trapped in operations. A worked example shows a wholesale firm with a 66-day cycle tying up roughly $110,000 in working capital, and lays out tactics to shorten collections, inventory, and payables.
Should Your Point-of-Sale App Be Your Bank? A Small-Business Guide to Embedded Finance
Embedded finance grew from a $148 billion market in 2025 to roughly $197 billion in 2026, putting bank accounts, cards, and lending inside software like Shopify, Square, and Toast. Here's how these products work, what the 2024 Synapse collapse revealed about FDIC-insurance gaps, and a practical framework for splitting money between embedded products and a traditional bank.
Return on Net Assets (RONA): How to Tell If Your Equipment and Inventory Are Earning Their Keep
Return on Net Assets (RONA = Net Income ÷ Fixed Assets + Net Working Capital) measures whether the equipment, vehicles, and inventory a business owns are actually generating profit. Includes a worked example, rough benchmarks (above 5% acceptable, above 20% outstanding), and how RONA differs from ROA and ROE for capital-intensive small businesses.
Dynamic Discounting for Small Suppliers: How C2FO and Taulia Early Payments Work — and When the Math Favors You
Dynamic discounting lets a small supplier trade a sliding, per-invoice discount for immediate payment from the buyer's own cash — no loan, no bank middleman — on platforms like C2FO and SAP Taulia. This guide explains how it differs from supply chain finance, why a 2/10 net 30 discount annualizes to roughly 36%, and how to record the discount as its own expense account in a plain-text ledger.
California and New York Cap Construction Retainage at 5%: What Contractors Should Do for 2026
California's SB 61 caps private-project retention at 5% for contracts signed on or after January 1, 2026, and New York's S5655 voids any retainage clause above 5% on covered private contracts of $150,000+ as of December 19, 2025. Here's what changed, the carve-outs, and how contractors should track retainage receivable in their books.
Asset-Based Lending and Inventory Financing: Turning What You Own Into Working Capital
How asset-based lending converts inventory and receivables into working capital — receivables typically earn 80–85% advance rates while inventory gets 50–80%, and your available credit moves with a weekly or monthly borrowing base calculation. Costs, qualification requirements, and how ABL compares to term loans, inventory-only financing, and equity.
The Quick Ratio (Acid-Test Ratio): The Liquidity Number Lenders Trust More Than Your Current Ratio
The quick ratio (acid-test ratio) measures whether a business can cover current liabilities using only cash, marketable securities, and receivables — deliberately excluding inventory and prepaid expenses. Covers the formula with a worked example, why loan covenants often set a quick-ratio minimum instead of a current-ratio one, why 1.0 is the textbook benchmark but fast-turn retailers healthily run 0.3–0.4, and the mistakes that make the ratio misleading.
The SBA Just Doubled Its Loan Ceiling to $10 Million: How the New 7(a) + 504 Rules Work
As of July 4, 2026, the SBA decoupled its 7(a) and 504 loan caps, letting qualified borrowers combine up to $5 million from each program — $10 million in total SBA-backed financing. Here's who benefits, how the two programs differ, and the structuring mistakes to avoid.
Merchant Cash Advances: Factor Rates, Confessions of Judgment, and the Stacking Trap
A 1.3 factor rate on a $50,000 merchant cash advance means $65,000 owed no matter how fast you repay — an effective APR that can exceed 300%. How confession-of-judgment clauses let lenders freeze bank accounts without a hearing, why stacked borrowers default at 3–5x the normal rate, and which states now ban COJs.