Financing a Business
Classifying businesses according to size
Sources of Finance
100

Describes a business that is unable to payback its debt.

What is Insolvency?

100

A business with 1-4 employees 

How many employees does a Micro business have

100

A tool to analyse the point of a business where total revenue equals total expenses or costs.

Break-even analysis

200

Relates to a business’s ability to meet its debt obligations in the long term, while maintaining high value of its assets.

What is Solvency?

200

If a business has 1-19 members  

How many members make up a small business.

200

What type of Equation is: Assets = liabilities + owner’s equity

Accounting Equation

300

Relates to a business’s ability to convert assets quickly to cash, which may then be used to cover expenses.

What is liquidity

300

A business with 19-200 employees

How many employees in a medium size business?

300

What type of finance exists when a business borrows funds from an external lender or financial institute.

Debt finance

400

Name any product with low volume sales and high profit margin.

Luxury car, high end Furniture, upmarket restaurant. 

400

A business with over 200 employees

How many employees does a large business have? 

400

What type of finance is, the investment made in the business by the owner, or by others who see the business’s potential to make a profit and want to receive some of this profit in return for their investment.

Equity finance

500

Name any Business with High volume sales and low profit margin.

Grocery stores, fast food restaurants

500

SME classification stands for?

Small to Medium Enterprise 

500

Name one type of Equity finance.

Self-funding, venture capitalist, private investor crowd funding, 

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