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A Systems View Across Time and Space

Table 2 The advantages and disadvantages of internal sources

From: The impact of corporate characteristics on the financial decisions of companies: evidence on funding decisions by Italian SMEs

Advantages

Disadvantages

Capital available

Expensive: is not tax-deductible

No interest

No increase of capital

Spares credit line

Not as flexible as external financing

No control procedures regarding creditworthiness

Losses are not tax-deductible

No influence of third parties

Limited in volume

  1. Source: author’s calculation