Good debt or bad debt: Get the best out of your business loans.

Getting and using business loans effectively is an essential part of life for businesses of all sizes. It's not a 'one of' activity - most businesses will need several loans at different stages in their development.

Loans may be used for many purposes:

* Start-up capital

* Sales drives

* Researching products and services

* Mergers and Acquisitions

* New Facilities

* Plant and machinery

Good Debt - Bad Debt

Developing businesses requires investment. Business loans are a common way of securing that investment. It is obviously important to understand that debt from business loans is good if the profits exceed the costs. Any business loan that doesn't make a positive return is bad debt.

It goes without saying that any business loan should always be 'good debt'. Make sure you know precisely how you will profit from any business loan and you should find the process of obtaining a business loan very easy.

Even if you have spare capital it can often be better to finance new initiatives using a business loan. Should anything go wrong a properly structured business loan will limit your personal liability. If you use your own capital you could lose everything.

It stands to reason that good debt is one that de-risks your company capital structure.

Conversely, I have seen many companies enter into manifestly bad debt. One of the more common situations is expanding into larger premises to boost output without first doing market research to show that there is sufficient demand to finance the debt.

Developing new products or services can be very expensive. Logically, such major investment should be market led. All too infrequently do we see adequate market research as a precursor to obtaining business loans for service development. Not surprisingly much of the finance raised becomes 'bad debt'.

First steps

Preparation is the key to ensuring all your business loans become good debt. The terms of the loan, the balance between capital or equity investment, and even the interest rates you have to pay are secondary to ensuring you are entering into 'good debt'.

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