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Understand What Your Balance Sheet is Telling You - and Your Creditors
In addition to serious cash flow problems, most struggling or failing companies - as well as many profitable companies - also have problems with their Balance Sheet. For companies experiencing an extended period of annual losses, a lack of profits tends to increase debt and erode equity. When this happens, the financial ratios that bankers use to measure a company's health - the same ratios used in borrowing covenants - begin to fall outside compliance. The company ends up paying higher financing costs, the company's bank account may be placed under bank control, and the company risks having the bank call their loan or line of credit.
Restructuring your company's balance sheet involves a review of corporate assets, liabilities and owners' equity as well as the owners' personal assets, liabilities and net worth. Among others, advantages to restructuring your balance sheet include:
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Uncollaterallized assets may be converted to cash, improving Liquidity.
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Some Current Liabilities may be converted to Long Term Liabilities, improving your Current Ratio.
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Some debt may be negotiated for early payment at a discount, improving Equity.
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Some debt may be moved between corporate and the owners' balance sheets, improving your Asset Ratio.
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Some debt may be consolidated at a more favorable rate or term, or with increased Tax Benefits.
Your CrownWatermark Business Consultant will review your company and personal financials to determine what action to take and when to take it in support of your turnaround strategy, while protecting your personal net worth. Call us at 253-279-4067 for your FREE consultation.
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