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There are many different ways in which a firm may finance itself. The money may come either from the owners who are the shareholders, or from creditors who are lenders of funds to the business. The exact proportion of finance provided from each source will differ from industry to industry, and from firm to firm. Most businesses, however, will be financed by a mixture of share and loan capital.
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© 1993 Sally Messenger and Humphrey Shaw
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Messenger, S., Shaw, H. (1993). Raising Finance. In: Financial Management. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13080-1_19
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