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Saturday 28 April 2018

Challenges Facing Small Business Funding Utah

By Michael Peterson


The trend in every country is that raising funds for expansion by micro traders is a huge problem. As a result, most of them are failing to expand or even fail. An enterprise will require finances for it to stay afloat. Due to this, most young businesses are collapsing as no one is giving them money. The following are the problems facing small business funding Utah.

A significant problem facing micro firms when it comes to funding is the risk. Most of them are willing to raise capital from lenders, but lenders find lending them money is a considerable risk. The reason they see it a chance is that there is no evidence to prove that the enterprise or firm has been making this amount of money in the past. A micro enterprise will be denied a chance to grow and expand due to the risk of loan repayment.

A bank will require a sole proprietor to produce a business plan, their previous transactions, current assets and the skills and experience of management. The reason being they want an insight of the deals and the running of the business. The task of producing all this will take very long hence delaying the process. The problem often arises as a result of the failure of the media to recognize start-ups.

In some countries, there are no laws that govern caps rates hence banks and other lenders can increase the interests on loan without any monitoring. As a result, where they feel there is a lot of risks, they raise the rates to cover the risk. Because micro enterprises have a lot of uncertainty, they become victims of the increments making it a nightmare to repay loans. Large companies, on the other hand, will enjoy the regular rates making repayment easy.

People will always put their money where they feel it is safer and not where it is unsafe. Investors are no different, they put their money in investments that look stable and promising more returns. Only, large businesses have these qualities hence they end up with more investors. Coming back at these micro-enterprises, they are usually unstable and cannot guarantee returns on investment, thus very few investors.

Maturity gap is also a huge problem. Usually, micro companies or enterprises will go for medium term loans or even short term. These loans are typically hard to acquire because there is no such security. The assets and liabilities will mismatch. Hence the firm is denied credit. On the other hand, if it were able to get a longer term loan, it would have been easier since the loan is secured a mortgage on the property.

If you are already facing the capital problem as a small firm, then it is more difficult for you to increase assets without a loan. Lenders will not understand this, and instead, they tell micro borrowers to increase holdings so as it can be used as collateral for borrowing. Raising the assets is a huge problem hence lacking the funds to expand.

Last but not least, people need to get answers to the challenges that sole proprietors and micro partnerships are facing. A solution will contribute positively to economic development and job creation.




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