Recent Fundings – June 2023

Recently, our invoice factoring funding solution has helped businesses in a variety of industries meet payroll and support their day-to-day operations.

See our recent fundings below:

Why choose Liquid Capital?

Liquid Capital is a full-service working capital and trade finance company. We have the largest geographic footprint of alternative funding professionals across North America, offering clients a customized and flexible approach with local decision-makers. We offer a complete range of solutions for all industries and provide immediate financing upon approval with no long-term contracts or hidden fees. 

 


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Client Satisfaction Survey

Liquid Capital Advance Corp. – Client Satisfaction Survey Results

Client Satisfaction Survey

We’re pleased to announce the recent completion of our Client Satisfaction Survey.  Over the next few posts, I’ll be highlighting some of the (stellar!) results.

First off, clients indicate we deliver what we promise – in fact, 70% strongly agreed with this statement. In a world with so many broken promises, we hold our integrity as a core corporate value: “We do what we say, because this is what our clients expect and deserve.”

Often, our promises relate to our efforts to bring a new client on board quickly, or to meet an existing client’s urgent working capital need for payroll or outstanding bills.  75% of survey respondents strongly agree we are quick to get them the cash they need to run their businesses.  Often our referral sources will ask, “How quickly can you do this for them?” and there’s typically surprise at how quickly a business can become a Liquid Capital Advance client once they provide us with their documents.

We are delighted that our existing and past clients speak so highly of us, and we look forward to continuing to hold to our core values.

Dan Effa

 

 

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Focus On The Right Goals – Part 2

In my last post, we discussed how important it is to focus on whether the customer will pay their bill, rather than just focusing on whether the customer issued a purchase order or signed a contract. 

This by definition will bring cash in the door. But that also isn’t the right end goal – it’s the net cash that’s important, after the expenses are paid.

Again, business owners will often focus on the sale/cash in the door, while not focusing an equivalent amount of time on the cash going out the door to fulfil that sale. I’ve spoken to business owners with 5-10% gross profit margins. With the level of risks business owners face today, that’s usually not a business worth getting up for. Often business owners just make sales for the sake of the sale (which might make sense for a specific purpose, but it has to be a pretty sound business decision….).  

 

Dan Effa

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working capital checklist

Evaluate the health of your cash flow with a working capital checklist

Looking to grow your business or help your client grow theirs? Our working capital checklist will help with efficient growth and agility.

working capital checklist

 

To ensure long-term success, resilience and agility to tackle whatever comes your way, having an optimal level of working capital is key to operating efficiently and realizing your growth plans.

Once you’ve found ways to optimize your working capital, it is also crucial to maintain clarity over your cash flow situation. Regularly evaluating the health of your working capital will not only ensure you know how your business is positioned to handle upcoming obligations and opportunities — it can also provide you with an early warning of potential challenges.

In an uncertain market, knowing whether your cash flow is optimal for your business to function is especially important. As one 2022 survey found, 60% of global business leaders, finance and accounting professionals said they expected understanding cash flow in real-time to become more important for their company in uncertain times. Nearly all participants said they wanted more confidence with their current visibility over cash flow.

Evaluating your working capital doesn’t have to be complicated. Implementing the checklist below can give you the confidence that you’re on the right track — or the information you (or your client) need to take action.

Get to know your cash flow position each month with this checklist:

 

Evaluate your cash flow situation monthly

While your working capital may have been sitting at a healthy level six months ago or on your last financial statement, economic and industry conditions can change rapidly, affecting supply chains, the cost of inputs or demand from the end customer. Having regular insight into your cash flow position ensures you have the funds available to meet payroll, order inputs and take advantage of new business opportunities.

Keeping an eye on your cash flow statement — which shows you how money moved in and out of your business over a certain period of time — can give you important insight into your liquidity on a monthly basis. 

Calculating working capital by using the current ratio (assets divided by liabilities) is a quick way to evaluate whether you have enough cash on hand to meet your near-term obligations. Numbers vary by industry, but a current ratio between 1.5 and 2 is generally considered healthy by most analysts.

Current ratio = Assets / Liabilities

 

Knowing your company’s cash liquidity position, as calculated by your cash conversion cycle (CCC), is also crucial to ensure your working capital is not out of balance.

To calculate the CCC, take the number of days it takes to sell inventory minus the days it takes you to pay vendors plus the days you need to collect on invoices.

 

Cash conversion cycle = # of days to sell inventory – # of days to pay accounts payable + # of days to collect accounts receivable

 

One way to monitor cash flow indicators, as BDC explains, is to set up a financial dashboard either via your accounting software or on an Excel spreadsheet. This dashboard can display your sales, inventory outstanding and other metrics, such as the average number of days it takes you to collect your receivables.

cash flow checklist

Forecast your cash flow for the short and long term

Having an idea of periods in your business where cash flow may be positively or negatively affected — whether by seasonal sales trends, supply chain issues or industry-specific concerns — is useful when it comes to identifying risk and taking action to keep your working capital healthy.

Creating and regularly revising your cash flow budget will give you crucial insights into estimated sales and projected cash inflows and outflows. These are a good indication of whether your beginning balance at the start of each month is adequate for your business or if there are certain months you may run short on cash.

Along with monitoring your short-term cash flow situation with a monthly forecast, you should also prepare long-term cash flow forecasts that look 6 to 12 months ahead.

Review your targets regularly

With financial projections in place, take time to regularly check whether your actual cash flow meets the minimum balance you set out in your cash flow budget.

Comparing metrics like your CCC to previous periods or even industry peers can also indicate whether you need to address your inventory or accounts payable, to shorten the cycle and free up working capital.

Maintain the health of your account receivables

Ensuring your clients pay their invoices according to agreed-upon terms is an important part of maintaining a healthy cash flow. Staying on top of accounts receivable via aging reports or by customer, for example, will give you regular insight into whether payment is happening as expected or if there are delays.

Consistently auditing your receivables process to see if there are ways to accelerate payment is also key — and may even enhance your customer’s experience. For example, are there ways to further automate invoicing? Are you billing as soon as your service is completed or the product is delivered?

 

If invoices are still held up in accounts receivable for 30, 60 or even 90 days, invoice factoring is one solution that can help to eliminate bottlenecks, free up cash and boost the health of your working capital.

 


Want to learn more about how invoice factoring can help manage working capital? Contact a Liquid Capital Principal today.