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Process




Students

In order to determine which type of financing is best for your company, each owner will investigate a different type of financing.  You may use the online resources that are provided in this web quest, or any other reliable source of information.  Be sure to give proper credit for each source of information that you use.  The three types of financing that you have to choose from are: a traditional collateralized bank loan, equity financing, or issuing corporate bonds.  After each of you have researched a different type of financing, you will meet as a group to discuss your findings and determine which type of financing you will choose.  To determine which type of financing is right for your company, you will consider many factors.  These include but are not limited to:

You will also identify the characteristics of your business and ownership arrangement that will help determine the best type of financing for you.

Resources

These websites will offer general information about business and finance.  You should use these sites to gather general information about business financing and financial markets.
           
      www.wsjonline.com
            www.businessweek.com
            www.uschamber.com

 

These websites will offer information about specific types of financing.  Use these sites to gather information about the characteristics, costs, and other factors relative to each type of financing. 

        www.entrepreneur.com/money/index.html
            www.sba.gov
            www.investopedia.com/terms/c/corporatebond.asp
            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bond_(finance)
            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/private_equity
            http://finance.yahoo.com/bonds
          http://business.uschamber.com/p10/p10_0500asp

       

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