The National Association of Development Companies (NADCO) is the trade association for the nation's 270 Certified Development Companies (CDCs). CDCs are certified by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to provide financing to small businesses through what is called the SBA 504 loan program. Members are non-profit organizations that serve every state, as well as Puerto Rico and U. S. territories in the South Pacific.
Chris Crawford is the president of NADCO. The organization is based in McLean, Virginia.
NADCO is actively supporting the SBA 504 refinance program, a time-limited opportunity that is due to expire 9/27/12. This powerful program offers businesses the opportunity to refinance their small business loans and withdraw equity for working capital. The program offers lenders the opportunity to bring owner-occupied commercial real-estate portfolio back into regulatory compliance and reduce overall CRE portfolio concentrations.
FINANCING
The 504 industry is responsible for financing more than billion to about 130,000 of America's small businesses over the past 25 years. The total project amount funded has been over 2 billion in small business financing projects. With NADCO's support, the 504 program's loan authority is up from 0 million in 1991 to .5 billion in FY 2011.
REFINANCING
Many small business owners are not aware that if they have a commercial business loan (non-SBA loan) they can refinance that loan at very low rates using the 504. For many small businesses, this has meant the difference between success and failure. However, this program is scheduled to end on September 27, 2012.
Small businesses can SAVE money and time using the 504 refinance program. The 504 Refinance program allows small businesses to use excess equity to obtain working capital for eligible business expenses.
The 504 refinance loan program is designed for small businesses that have outstanding commercial real estate and/or commercial real estate loans. Businesses can refinance up to 90% of the appraised value of available collateral.
SBA estimates that as many as 8,000 businesses may participate in this 504 refinancing program during the current fiscal year, which will provide up to .5 billion in SBA-guaranteed financing leading to total project financing of almost billion.
The 504 refinance loan program enables small businesses to:
Use excess equity to obtain working capital for eligible business expenses
Lock in long-term, fixed-rate, low-interest commercial financing
Help expand those businesses, create jobs and benefit consumers too
Consolidate existing debt
Finance eligible business expenses, saving working capital
Other benefits include:
consolidate existing debt (balloon and/or high interest rate loans)
lock in long-term, stable financing, reduce fluctuating expenses
finance eligible business expenses, save needed cash-flow
protect jobs and hire additional staff, supporting the local community
include closing costs in the transaction, eliminating cash-flow drain
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All You Need To Know About Mechanical Engineering Jobs
Mechanical engineering is exactly what it sounds like - a discipline which uses materials according to the laws of physics to make production, locomotion and transportation easier. Building and maintaining machines - oil rigs, power plants, airplanes, ... - all this falls under the umbrella of "mechanical engineering".
In the beginning, a mechanical engineer usually has to do a fair amount of physical work - like a mechanic, as it were. However, things grow easier with time, and after a certain degree of seniority, one can stick to supervision, administration, drawings or other tasks that do not involve physical labor.
There are six sub-disciplines to mechanical engineering, all of which generate medium-to-high incomes even at the starting level.
1. Mechanics. Mechanics deals with the effect of forces on matter, and of course the forces themselves. These are used to determine how bodies will react under certain forces while in rest or in motion, how fluids respond to forces, and how bodies respond to stress and strain. Mechanics is most useful during design and analysis - it is used to create a design that utilizes forces most efficiently, and to nullify any flaws in the design.
2. Kinematics. Kinematics, quite obviously, deals with the motion of objects and bodies. However, the forces causing the motion are ignored. The movement of a crane or an engine piston are cases where kinematics would be applied. The science is used to figure out the range of motion of a given implement, or to design an implement with a predetermined range of motion.
3. Thermodynamics. Thermodynamics is the study of energy - enthalpy, entropy and transformation from one form to another. This is involved in all operations that involve energy changes - fuel utilization, heating and cooling, chemical changes etc. Air conditioners, engines and insulation systems are a few cases of thermodynamic implements.
4. Mechatronics. This sub-discipline covers more than just mechanical engineering. In fact, this is one of those hybrid areas where mechanical engineers just love to go. Involving software engineering and electrical as well as mechanical, mechatronics can create systems that perform motor functions through electrical stimuli with the help of software. For example, the hard drive, or - more visibly - the optical drives on a computer. Robotics is another sub-branch of mechatronics, and this is used for the creation of robots. Many manufacturing industries employ robots for tasks that are repetitive, repugnant or dangerous to human beings.
5. Structural analysis. Structural analysis is the discipline of finding out the causes of failure in a particular machine or structure. Usually, the cause of failure - breakage, excessive heat, friction etc - can be pinned down to flaws in the implement's design or chemical composition.
6. Drafting. An essential skill for all engineers, drafting is the process of creating an accurate drawing from which a product can be assembled. The drawing must be perfectly in scale, and include information about the materials to be used, joins to be placed etc.
Moving from one to another sub-division of a mechanical engineering job is fairly easy. Through the mechatronics route, a mechanical engineer can even move on to working in the hardware or software sectors, which pay much better than equally gruelling jobs in, say mechanics or kinetics. The skills of an engineer are always in high demand, so students can take up this line without doubt or fear.
In the beginning, a mechanical engineer usually has to do a fair amount of physical work - like a mechanic, as it were. However, things grow easier with time, and after a certain degree of seniority, one can stick to supervision, administration, drawings or other tasks that do not involve physical labor.
There are six sub-disciplines to mechanical engineering, all of which generate medium-to-high incomes even at the starting level.
1. Mechanics. Mechanics deals with the effect of forces on matter, and of course the forces themselves. These are used to determine how bodies will react under certain forces while in rest or in motion, how fluids respond to forces, and how bodies respond to stress and strain. Mechanics is most useful during design and analysis - it is used to create a design that utilizes forces most efficiently, and to nullify any flaws in the design.
2. Kinematics. Kinematics, quite obviously, deals with the motion of objects and bodies. However, the forces causing the motion are ignored. The movement of a crane or an engine piston are cases where kinematics would be applied. The science is used to figure out the range of motion of a given implement, or to design an implement with a predetermined range of motion.
3. Thermodynamics. Thermodynamics is the study of energy - enthalpy, entropy and transformation from one form to another. This is involved in all operations that involve energy changes - fuel utilization, heating and cooling, chemical changes etc. Air conditioners, engines and insulation systems are a few cases of thermodynamic implements.
4. Mechatronics. This sub-discipline covers more than just mechanical engineering. In fact, this is one of those hybrid areas where mechanical engineers just love to go. Involving software engineering and electrical as well as mechanical, mechatronics can create systems that perform motor functions through electrical stimuli with the help of software. For example, the hard drive, or - more visibly - the optical drives on a computer. Robotics is another sub-branch of mechatronics, and this is used for the creation of robots. Many manufacturing industries employ robots for tasks that are repetitive, repugnant or dangerous to human beings.
5. Structural analysis. Structural analysis is the discipline of finding out the causes of failure in a particular machine or structure. Usually, the cause of failure - breakage, excessive heat, friction etc - can be pinned down to flaws in the implement's design or chemical composition.
6. Drafting. An essential skill for all engineers, drafting is the process of creating an accurate drawing from which a product can be assembled. The drawing must be perfectly in scale, and include information about the materials to be used, joins to be placed etc.
Moving from one to another sub-division of a mechanical engineering job is fairly easy. Through the mechatronics route, a mechanical engineer can even move on to working in the hardware or software sectors, which pay much better than equally gruelling jobs in, say mechanics or kinetics. The skills of an engineer are always in high demand, so students can take up this line without doubt or fear.
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