Step 3: Financing

Funding A Success Story

This module on financing is designed to increase your competitiveness through an improved knowledge of the sources and methods of funding available to small and medium-sized (SME) service firms. The interactive questionnaire/checklist immediately following this preface will measure your current knowledge of the sources and methods used to finance a SME service firm. The description of those sources and methods will provide you with the answers to the questions. At any time during your review of the module or the description, you can go directly to the section that interests you the most by referring to the outline shown to the left and clicking on that section. You will note from this outline that we also included other relevant sections such as dealing with the paperwork involved in trying to obtain a loan, and managing your relationship with your lender.