Next year alone, British Rail's external finance will top £2,000 million.

The reader will appreciate that in most cases oil field development necessitates the use of external finance.

In this situation external finance for the purchase of foreign equipment and expertise is provided by international banks.

Good governance not only promotes development at home, but helps to attract external finance and investment from all sources.

It suggests that capital structures are determined largely by the history of needs for external finance.

Retained earnings are the only source of financing investments in the firm, there is no external finance involved.

This additional cost is being taken into account in a total of aggregate external finance.

It can help you secure external finance, measure success and grow the business.

Thus, the form of debt a firm chooses can act as a signal of its need for external finance.

However, raising external finance still presents a major challenge for many businesses in the sector.