Finance

One of the most misunderstood concepts about leasing or buying a new car with a loan is how the financing really works. We’ll say it again later, but the key concept to understand is that dealers do not finance car leases and loans. Repeat: New-car dealers do not finance cars. However, dealers can affect what you pay for financing.

Dealer always sell for cash

Car dealers are independent business people who have an authorized franchise with one or more car manufacturers. They do not work for the manufacturer. There are no manufacturer-owned car dealerships. In some cases, a large dealership may own multiple dealership stores in various locations. These stores may sell the same brand vehicles, or different brands. Dealers buy cars from the manufacturer, usually with large loans from a bank or finance company. The bank charges dealers interest on these loans. Dealers have to sell cars to pay off these loans and associated interest, as well as cover other expenses of running a business.

Dealers always get cash for their cars, whether it’s directly from the customer, or from a finance company or bank who has loaned a customer the money. A common misconception is that dealers give cash customers a discount. This is not true because dealers generally make more money on financed loans or leases — in the form of commissions or boosted interest rates.

Dealers don’t finance leases and loans

When a dealer leases or sells a car to a customer, he has finance companies or banks that he works with to provide his customers the financing they need. Most dealers use the car manufacturer’s “captive” finance company, such as GMAC, Ford Motor Credit, and American Honda Finance. Dealers arrrange financing on customers’ behalf — as a service. Customers can arrange their own financing if they choose.

Key point: Dealers do not finance leases and loans. Dealers do not approve customers for leases or loans. Dealers do not process leases or loans or take payments on leases or loans. Dealers simply take lease and loan applications and try to arrange financing for customers.

While studies show that technology spending is once again on the rise, there’s a reason you haven’t heard a collective sigh of relief from the software industry. While many budgets are once again allowing for the purchase of enterprise software, hardware and peripherals, there’s no question that today’s purchasers are smarter, savvier and more selective than ever.

Even though the purse strings have loosened, competition is at an all-time high. It’s no longer enough to provide a software solution that meets the potential customer’s needs, or even to provide it at the best price. Today, smart vendors are constantly looking for ways to stay one step ahead of the competition.

While increasing sales is always part of a competitive business strategy, software development companies often overlook a simple method of accomplishing this objective – making it easier for customers to buy.

One option increasing in popularity among software vendors is to establish a customized finance program that provides no-hassle financing solutions for your prospective clients. In addition to “one-stop shopping,” your customers can reap the other benefits of financing that make it easier for them to commit to technology purchases, including:

100 percent financing — Many finance companies offer 100 percent financing for the cost of software and maintenance contracts, which requires no down payment. Because customers don’t have to come up with a down payment, they can make a purchase immediately, rather than hold up the sale with a “wait and see” mentality that often accompanies a dip into cash reserves. It also allows your customers to invest more capital in revenue-generating activities.

Scientific works in the theories of finances and credit, according to the specification of the research object, are characterized to be many-sided and many-leveled.

The definition of totality of the economical relations formed in the process of formation, distribution and usage of finances, as money sources is widely spread. For example, in “the general theory of finances” there are two definitions of finances:

1) “…Finances reflect economical relations, formation of the funds of money sources, in the process of distribution and redistribution of national receipts according to the distribution and usage”. This definition is given relatively to the conditions of Capitalism, when cash-commodity relations gain universal character;

2) “Finances represent the formation of centralized ad decentralized money sources, economical relations relatively with the distribution and usage, which serve for fulfillment of the state functions and obligations and also provision of the conditions of the widened further production”. This definition is brought without showing the environment of its action. We share partly such explanation of finances and think expedient to make some specification.

First, finances overcome the bounds of distribution and redistribution service of the national income, though it is a basic foundation of finances. Also, formation and usage of the depreciation fund which is the part of financial domain, belongs not to the distribution and redistribution of the national income (of newly formed value during a year), but to the distribution of already developed value.

This latest first appears to be a part of value of main industrial funds, later it is moved to the cost price of a ready product (that is to the value too) and after its realization, and it is set the depression fund. Its source is taken into account before hand as a depression kind in the consistence of the ready products cost price.

Second, main goal of finances is much wider then “fulfillment of the state functions and obligations and provision of conditions for the widened further production”. Finances exist on the state level and also on the manufactures and branches’ level too, and in such conditions, when the most part of the manufactures are not state.