ACE Magazine: Issue 2 / 2016 ACE Magazine: Issue 2 / 2016 | Page 33

The very best from among them will insist to just engage an accountant who will offer them with templates of spread sheets but will have no idea as to what to do with the data. Information is the one most important input used by funding institutions when transforming their deposits into loans. This financial information availability among small business is the main challenge faced by both suppliers and demanders of funds. Development banks are even more affected as oppose to their commercial bank counterparts due to the advisory and development functions bestow upon them. Finding the optimal profits requires balancing profitability and customers’ developmental costs. MANAGEMENT SOLUTION Many from among the micro and small business owners embrace the importance of record keeping but postpone it until the time is ‘right’. Convincing small business owners – especially those under sole proprietorship – of the importance of keeping financial records is a challenge. Try telling them that this information will assist them in planning for their future growth, help them identify spending patterns that needs to be control or even help in saving further losses in the event of a bankruptcies exercise. Financial institutions can choose to ignore these prospects from among small business owners and remain conservative in their lending practices. However, this will present a loss of opportunity to increase their client base. Perhaps the most creative lending technology introduced that is disrupting the financial services industry is the financial technology or FinTech’s solutions. Companies offering FinTech services have developed a small, nimble softwarebased providers in extending the financial services. Their systems facilitate record keeping where tenac