Business Angels are informal wealthy investors who invest in high-risk and high-return entrepreneurial businesses at a very early stage.
Posts published in December 2021
Venture Capital (VC) is capital invested in business start-ups or growing small and medium businesses offering innovative technology.
Convertible bonds, or convertible debentures, are types of bond that the holder can convert into shares in the issuing company.
Bonds, or debentures, are fixed-income financial instruments, essentially long-term loans issued by a business to investors.
A long-term bank loan is provision of finance by the lender to the business for a long period of time. The lender is a commercial bank.
Hire purchase occurs when an asset is sold to the buyer who agrees to pay fixed payments over an agreed period of time. How does hire purchase work?
Sale-and-leaseback is a transaction when the business sells a particular Fixed Asset and immediately lease that asset back.
The government can slow down economic growth by decreasing its own government spending, through higher TAXes and increasing interest rates.
Government intervention may either support business activity to speed up economic growth or restrain it to slow down the economy.
It is not very difficult to calculate exchange rates. Exporters and importers are interested in calculating exchange rates.
The government of any country will most likely formulate two different types of policies - domestic policy and foreign policy.