The Business Finance Market

Download or read book The Business Finance Market written by Industrial Systems Research and published by Industrial Systems Research. This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive survey of supply and demand, product innovation, pricing, and other matters in the business finance market. It looks at major factors affecting the competitiveness (growth, performance) of banks and other business finance suppliers. It examines the principal business finance products, new product developments, and marketing and distribution issues. Finally, it reviews key influences on businesses' demands for particular types of finance. The book will be useful to academics, commentators, and practitioners on both the supply and demand sides of the market - including executives in the business finance industry, industrial-commercial firms and their finance managers, and independent professional advisers and accountants. CONTENTS: 1. THE BUSINESS FINANCE MARKET: AN OVERVIEW 2. THE SUPPLY OF BUSINESS FINANCE 3. THE ECONOMIC & POLITICAL-LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS FINANCING 4. THE FINANCING REQUIREMENTS OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF FIRM 5. BUSINESS FINANCING REQUIREMENTS IN DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES 6. THE USES OF FINANCE BY BUSINESSES 7. FACTORS INFLUENCING BUSINESSES' DEMANDS FOR PARTICULAR TYPES OF FINANCE 8. THE DEMAND FOR OVERDRAFTS & OTHER SHORT-TERM CREDIT FACILITIES 9. THE DEMAND FOR MEDIUM-TERM LOANS & OTHER FACILITIES 10. THE DEMAND FOR LARGE-SCALE LONG-TERM FINANCE