Workshop: Developing Financial Projections for External Financing

This two-hour workshop is designed to educate Business Owners and Entrepreneurs who need to raise funds from external lenders (SBA/Banks, Venture Capital) to finance their business operations.  This workshop is for businesses in start-up, continuing or growth phases. 

In this workshop you will learn about: 

• The information required for lenders - Historical Performance, Projections, Assumptions on Growth and Market Share, Price and Cost     
• External Sources of Information
• Financial Projection (Worksheet) - Profit & Loss Statement, Cash Flow, Balance Sheet 

Attendees are expected to have basic knowledge of and ability to interpret the components of a Profit & Loss Statement, Cash Flow Statement and a Balance Sheet.

Speaker's Bio:
Rajiv Gupta, SCORE Mentor, has 40+ years of (US and European-based) experience with multinational/international corporations as well as small businesses in the areas of business management, finance, marketing/sales, business mergers/acquisition (buy side and sell side), joint venture formation, currency hedging contracts and valuation of technology in both B2B and B2C markets in the USA, Europe, Middle-East, Asia and Africa. 

As Hold-Separate Trustee for the US Federal Trade Commission and the European Mergers & Acquisition Task Force overseeing business divestiture he oversaw  the divestiture of Solvay's Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) business to 3M. PVDF materials are used extensively in the wire/cable and chemical processing industries.

He currently teaches international and B2B marketing and sales at the University of Missouri St. Louis and advises businesses.