Small Business Loans and Bad Credit

Do a search about business loans and bad credit and you will see result after result touting some way or another where you can fool the banks and lenders into giving you a business loan.

Follow those results and for the most part you will only end up poorer (paying those companies or individuals a fee) and still not getting the business loan you want or need.

Banks and lenders use credit histories and credit scores as a time saving measure. You request a loan, they pull your credit. If your credit is bad or below their threshold, they don't waste anymore time on your deal request and can move on to other deals that have a better chance of getting funded.

I deal with entrepreneurs everyday that complain about how their bank or a private lender just won't look at their deal because they have bad credit. I constantly hear the same thing:

"Why won't they just look at the merits of my business and not focus so much on my personal credit as it is my business that will be paying the loan back!"

My answer is always the same:

1) That is how the financial markets work, and

2) If you want to get approved based solely on the merits of your business then find the right business loan that focuses only on the merits of your business.

Functions of Business Finance

The ultimate goal of any business is to be profitable at all times and earn money; it is money that helps a business to grow and expand. In order to be successful, an organization needs to able to manage money in a sophisticated manner and so all organizations have a finance department that takes care of different monetary transactions.

The financial department in any company consists of various sub-departments or teams to take care of many functions, apart from buying and selling of products, thus business finance is the broad term that describes all functionalities of the finance department of a commercial enterprise.

The two main functions of business finance:

Investments: Functions include finding investment options for the company such as, creating new products, asset acquisition, increasing local purchase of securities or shares, etc. Also the decisions of investing in mergers and acquisitions for the expansion of the company have to be scrutinized by this department before the Board of Directors can finalize them.