The concept of leverage is very simple and is based on the assumption that the amount of an investment is not necessarily equal to the capital available, but can overcome it.
In principle, a subject that has at its disposal a capital of 1000 may make investments of 1000. This is the logic for example, followed by the savers.
the market realities and in particular business, you can invest an amount well above the capital you have available, thereby boosting both profits and losses.
In the logic of industry, the capital that they have available is of two types: equity, namely the money that the entrepreneur has the enterprise, and external capital, and that the funding that has been done firm by suppliers and banks.
Everything (or almost) the concept of leverage is based on the proportion between the equity and media third, because in the jargon of banks and financial analysts, it is stated as " Leverage "or relationship indebtedness, the result of the following division:
(equity + net debt) / equity
A report of 1, means that the firm finances its investments only with equity (ie, with money coming out directly from the pockets entrepreneur). So whenever this ratio exceeds unity, it means that the company is using, as well as the financial capital also means third parties. This
leveraged companies, has always been seen historically with love and hate by banks, and recently, together with other circumstances, has become the dominant reason for the decline in the supply of credit businesses.
The impression I have in recent months is that the organization is located between Scylla and Charybdis and do not know where to jump in order to continue their investment, sometimes to stay afloat in this particular period.
Are there solutions?
The concept of leverage may suggest something, that is, as the net debt has been reduced or are no longer available as in the past, the employer must re-open your wallet and invest equity in his business.
This aggravation of the concept of leverage, ultimately it is the solution that many entrepreneurs are speculating, and someone calmly declares that making a choice of this type, it is only the balance, the economy of the years in which leverage was brutalized by exaggerating the action sometimes rashly undertaking to bank credit.
And the banks what they think?