Finance Company: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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Business Definition for: Finance Company

  • a business that lends money to people or companies against collateral of some kind

Additional Resources

Inside Business Finance - 10 Fundamental Strategies for Finance and Accounting
Learn the industry's top 10 fundamental strategies to grow your company and revenue by upgrading from out-of-the-box Finance & Accounting software. Imagine the possibilities if your Finance and Accounting can be automated and better connected to all systems and processes throughout the company.
Tags: Strategy, Accounting, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Finance
White papers 2008-08-11
Bay Area Beverage Company Acquires Concord Beverage with Funding From GE Commercial Finance, Franchise Finance
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Bay Area Beverage Company, the exclusive distributor of branded beverages in Alameda and Contra Costa (Calif.) counties, recently completed a $50 million deal with GE Commercial Finance, Franchise Finance GEFF to support the growth of the company.
Tags: beverage, Beverage company, finance, General Electric Co.
Research articles 2005-03-03
American General Finance: one of the country's largest consumer-credit companies. (American General Finance Corp. in Evansville, Indiana) (Company Profile)
Since its founding in 1920, the company now known as American General Finance has been on a steady roll. Still headquartered in Evansville where it began, the company founded as Interstate Finance and later known as CrediThrift has been targeting a finSince its founding in 1920, the...
Tags: company, finance
Research articles 1993-06-01
DaimlerChrysler Opens Finance Group
DaimlerChrysler Services, Farmington Hills, Mich., announced the establishment of a new finance group for the U.S. market called Business Vehicle Finance. The new entity brings together the financing expertise of both Chrysler Financial and DaimlerChrysler Services Truck Finance, the company said.
Tags: Daimler AG, finance
Research articles 2004-03-01
Case Study: Finance Transformation In The Pharmaceuticals Industry - From The F Troop To The 82nd Airborne
The finance organization at this leading pharmaceutical company generated considerable business value through its understanding of company issues, its analytical capabilities and its responsiveness to operating-unit needs. The challenge: Could the finance function continue to do all that - V and improve efficiency at the same time? Responding to slackening...
Tags: Deloitte LLP, Finance, Financial Accounting, Industry, Pharmaceutical Company
White papers 2008-06-25
Textron Financial's Finance Company Services To Lead $22 Million Revolving Credit Line for Fair Finance Company
Business Editors
Tags: finance, Textron Financial
Research articles 2002-04-19
The Benefits of Cash Flow and Working Capital Management
Trade finance is an important part of the business. It offers various aspects of managing finances for the company. Trade finance helps to generate, manage and establish various finance practices like working capital, factoring solutions, banking solutions, loans, guarantees, discounting, etc. Various trade finance companies help to provide credit finance,...
Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Working Capital, Benefit
White papers
Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc. and Atlas Premium Finance Company Announce the Formal Launch of Atlas' Premium Finance Business
Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc. UIH (AMEX: UVE), a vertically integrated insurance holding company, and Atlas Premium Finance Company Atlas, announce the formal launch of Atlas' premium finance business. Atlas will offer insurance premium finance services to customers with annual homeowners insurance premiums of at least $1,000. Premium finance...
Tags: Atlas, finance
Research articles 2007-11-29
Finance's Big Leap Forward
For some companies, getting the most out of finance may require centralization, standardization and automation, traditional methods of wringing cost from the function. For others, finance may add more value if the company invests in better forecasting, analysis and planning capabilities. Still other businesses need to beef up the finance...
Tags: Penton Media Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance
White papers 2004-08-01
Work in Progress: As Mentoring and Ethics Training Evolve, Finance Learns How to Boost Team
While company finance departments use the Best Workplaces categories to put distinct elements of finance under the microscope, a clear conclusion from research is that no individual aspect of the finance workplace is totally discrete. Rather, there is interconnectivity across the five areas - manifested in intangible characteristics like team...
Tags: Team, CFO Publishing Corp., Ethics, Financial Accounting, Finance
White papers 2003-11-01
Case Study: Finance Transformation In Financial Services - Back On Track
Several years after being forced to restate financials, a large U.S. financial services company was still struggling to get its financial processes in order. In the meantime, its external auditors had also uncovered a number of significant weaknesses and deficiencies in those financial processes. The company needed to strengthen its...
Tags: Deloitte LLP, Finance, Financial, Financial Accounting, Financial Service
White papers 2008-06-25
IBM Survey: Sixty Percent of Finance Executives Struggle to Support CEO Growth Activities
The IBM Chief Finance Officers Study of 900 senior finance executives worldwide, launched today, reveals only a third of respondents rate themselves highly effective in supporting the CEO's efforts to grow the company.
Tags: IBM Corp., survey
Research articles 2005-12-16
Sourcing Goes Strategic
If finance professionals believe that finance and accounting outsourcing, whether it's comprehensive or selective, is not going to happen at their company, they're living in a dream world. This article comments that the outsourcing of business processes, particularly in finance and accounting, is moving to a higher level, requiring greater...
Tags: Sourcing, Penton Media Inc., Purchasing & Procurement, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Business Operations, Finance, Management
White papers 2002-01-09
The International Finance Corporation
THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION, part of the World Bank, loaned local power company Electropaz US$25 million. The company is majority-owned by Spanish utility Iberdrola.
Research articles 2000-09-01
The International Finance Corporation
THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION, the private-sector lending arm of the World Bank, will lend US$10 million and guarantee another $13 million to Consorcio Energetico Punta Cana-Macao, a Dominican electricity company. Proceeds will finance wind-powered generation projects.
Research articles 2005-10-01
Starting from scratch - Procter & Gamble's training of its finance staffers - includes related article on Lucent Technologies Inc - Sometimes a Great Notion
Almost all the business smarts that Erik Nelson has acquired in his 36 years in finance at Procter & Gamble has been on the job. And that approach to learning has served him well. In 1993, he was named CFO of the giant consumer products company.Nevertheless, in the five years...
Tags: finance, Lucent Technologies Inc., Procter & Gamble Co., training
Research articles 1998-05-01
Co-Finance Shadow Budget
This is a template for co-finance sources and their budgets. It can be used to get details about year wise co-finance received.
Tags: Budget, Template, GEF IW:LEARN
Tools & templates 2007-11-19
CiCi's Pizza Signs $1.1 Million Deal with GE Commercial Finance, Franchise Finance
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Marlin Alexander, Inc., a six-unit franchisee of Coppell, Texas-based CiCi's Pizza, recently finalized a deal with GE Commercial Finance, Franchise Finance GEFF designed to assist in the growth of the company and the concept. The deal, valued at $1.1 million, includes funds for acquisition, new store development,...
Tags: finance, General Electric Co.
Research articles 2005-02-09
GE Commercial Finance Agrees to Acquire Bombardier Capital's US$2.2 Billion Inventory Finance Division
STAMFORD, Conn. -- GE Commercial Finance, the business-to-business financial services unit of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), today announced that it has agreed to acquire Bombardier Capital's Inventory Finance Division BCIFD.
Tags: Bombardier Inc., finance, General Electric Co.
Research articles 2005-04-18
GE Commercial Finance Completes Acquisition of Bombardier Capital's Inventory Finance Division
STAMFORD, Conn. -- GE Commercial Finance, the business-to-business financial services unit of the General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), has completed its previously announced US$2.3 billion acquisition of Bombardier Capital's Inventory Finance Division BCIFD.
Tags: acquisition, Bombardier Inc., finance, General Electric Co.
Research articles 2005-06-01
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