Financing Strategies: Capitalizing Your Business to Maximize Return (Video) (Course Id 1086)

In this course you are going to learn about the financing strategies for your business throughout its lifecycle. You will learn about all the various debt and equity financing arrangements at an application based level.

In the debt sections of the course, you will learn about how operating lines of credit works and what to watch out for. We will also talk about asset based lending facilities, term loans, and leasing. Mezzanine financing is an increasingly popular way of replacing equity financing with hybrid financial instruments. In the equity sections of the course, you will learn about venture capital, private equity, and the process of going public.

Course Learning Objectives

• Recognize and identify the needs and objectives for capital
• Describe the financing lifecycle and recognize where a company is within the financing lifecycle
• Identify the short-term, semi-permanent, and permanent sources of capital
• Compare and contrast various sources of debt financing
• Describe common terms and structures used in financing arrangements
• Describe mezzanine financing and discuss unique features of these instruments
• Compare and contrast the different sources of equity financing including venture capital, private equity, and initial public offerings