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| Gustafson, Cole R.. |
| The 1998 Survey of Small Business Finances provides robust information on the financing of small businesses including an overview of their firm's organization, financial characteristics, and credit use. Information from the survey is used in this study to compare the financial characteristics of urban and rural small businesses. Overall, rural small businesses have very similar financial characteristics, access to technology and financial services, sources of financial capital, and creditworthiness when compared to urban small businesses. Nonparametric rank order statistical methods were required when comparing dollar values of urban and rural small businesses because normality assumptions were violated due to the high concentration of small firms. On... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Rural; Small; Business; Finances; Survey; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23674 |
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| Gustafson, Cole R.. |
| The 1998 Survey of Small Business Finances provides robust information on the financing of small businesses including an overview of their firm's organization, financial characteristics, and credit use. Information from the survey is used in this study to compare the financial characteristics of food manufacturing and retailing small businesses. On average, both food manufacturing and food retailing small businesses had positive financial characteristics. Although they were only marginally profitable and liquid, they were highly solvent. Accounts receivable and inventory comprise nearly half of food manufacturers' total assets and a third of food retailers' assets. By most financial measures, food retailers were statistically smaller than food... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Business; Finances; Food; Manufacturing; Retail; Small; Survey; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23673 |
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