What’s on the Sources of Finance poster
A 8-row table: Source · Type · Cost.
Ordered roughly by stage and cost.
- Retained earnings — Internal — Opportunity cost only
- Bank loan — Debt — Interest; often secured
- Overdraft — Debt — High rate; repayable on demand
- Trade credit — Debt — Free if terms are met
- Leasing — Debt — Preserves cash; total cost higher
- Angel / VC — Equity — Ownership and control
- Public equity — Equity — Dilution plus listing costs
- Grants — Neither — Restricted use; competitive
Match the term: fund long-term assets with long-term finance. Buying a building on an overdraft is how businesses fail.
Questions about the Sources of Finance poster
- What’s on the Sources of Finance poster?
- A 8-row table: Source · Type · Cost. Ordered roughly by stage and cost. Retained earnings — Internal — Opportunity cost only; Bank loan — Debt — Interest; often secured; Overdraft — Debt — High rate; repayable on demand; Trade credit — Debt — Free if terms are met; Leasing — Debt — Preserves cash; total cost higher; Angel / VC — Equity — Ownership and control; Public equity — Equity — Dilution plus listing costs; Grants — Neither — Restricted use; competitive. Match the term: fund long-term assets with long-term finance. Buying a building on an overdraft is how businesses fail.
- Who is the Sources of Finance poster for?
- Sources of Finance belongs to the Business & Management section rather than to a school year, because business is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning business finance can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Sources of Finance poster?
- Debt costs money. Equity costs ownership. Both cost something. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Sources of Finance belongs on the wall where that business work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Sources of Finance?
- The Balance Sheet, Break-Even and Budgeting sit alongside Sources of Finance in the Business & Management section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.The Balance SheetBreak-EvenBudgeting
- Is the Sources of Finance poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Sources of Finance downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Business & Management section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Sources of Finance poster print at?
- Sources of Finance is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Sources of Finance loses nothing.Printing guide
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