Small businesses figure importantly in the American economy, yet few resources exist for small business owners looking to build their credit. In The Rational Guide to Building Small Business Credit, Barbara Weltman offers an indispensable new guide that clearly explains how to build and maintain a credit profile for your company. This book covers the fundamentals of credit building, including the five C's of credit analysis and how to register your D-U-N-S(r) number with Dunn & Bradstreet. Advanced concepts include re-establishing poor credit, working with the government, and running credit checks on your customers.This book uses a rational, no-nonsense approach to give you the information you need to proactively manage your credit!

Over two years of dedication by the most experienced credit professionals in the field, including many Credit Administration Program (CAP) instructors, has produced this comprehensive text on all the essential elements of business credit. Every chapter has been reviewed and updated by this team of professionals to bring you the most reliable text of current practices for credit professionals. This is a great handbook for all credit and collections departments and important review material for all three NACM designations. Highlights include:- Reference sections have been added to the end of all chapters to ensure complete topic coverage should the reader desire more - Chapters have been rewritten to provide consistent, logical presentation of materials - Appendices have been created to round out important, timely concepts such as an Enron case study - A complete section on Revised Article 9 has been developed - Legal counsel was involved in the review of every chapter to assure accuracy in all relevant issues - Even more informative and illustrative samples of forms and documents have been added to chapters such as Credit Investigations - Outlined learning objectives at the beginning, and review questions at the end of each chapter help to reinforce the learning experience - Great layout and easy-to-read type

Principles of Business, Marketing, and Finance offers pedagogical tools and hands-on activities that prepare students to become knowledgeable consumers, digital citizens, and successful employees or entrepreneurs, as they maximize their knowledge of business concepts. The basics of business, marketing, and finance―as well as personal finance and career management―are introduced in an easy-to-understand manner that helps students apply math, English Language Arts, technology, and soft skills to plan for a future career. The second edition has been updated to reflect recent changes in tax laws and procedures, and includes new coverage of workplace diversity and safety, understanding FAFSA for education and personal financial planning, and management challenges such as insider trading and legal procedures.

Finance is the study of value and how it is determined. Individuals, small businesses and corporations regularly make use of value determinations for making strategic decisions that affect the future outcomes of their endeavors. The importance of accurate valuations cannot be overestimated; valuing assets too highly will lead to investing in assets whose costs are greater than their returns, while undervaluing assets will lead to missed opportunities for growth. In some situations (such as a merger or an acquisition), the outcome of the decision can make or break the investor. The need for solid financial skills has never been more pressing than in today's global economy. The Fundamental Principles of Finance offers a new and innovative approach to financial theory. The book introduces three fundamental principles of finance that flow throughout the theoretical material covered in most corporate finance textbooks. These fundamental principles are developed in their own chapter of the book, then referred to in each chapter introducing financial theory. In this way, the theory is able to be mastered at a fundamental level. The interactions among the principles are introduced through the three precepts, which help show the impact of the three principles on financial decision-making. This fresh and original approach to finance will be key reading for undergraduate students of introduction to finance, corporate finance, capital markets, financial management and related courses, as well as managers undertaking MBAs.