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Asset Finance Advisory Service

...exploring all the options.

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First hand experience has taught us that successful funding of assets involves more than accepting submissions that offer the lowest primary rental.

Successful funding and ongoing management of your asset portfolio can reap year on year cost savings and maximise the utilisation of health service assets. To ensure that the most appropriate funding instrument is selected, the issues associated with each and every financing arrangement have to be assessed and advised on accordingly.

The evolution of asset finance in the NHS Healthcare sector has grown steadily since 1993. There are now relatively few Trusts that have not entered into an operating lease. This has given most Trusts first hand experience of the complexity of asset finance and given an appreciation that this is a specialist area of finance requiring bespoke financial advice. The evolution of Foundation Trusts has further developed demand for more varied financial products and the associated need to review additional funding options.

The Arlingclose Asset Finance Advisory Service encompasses a broader review of options relevant and sympathetic to the health service environment. It is a supplementary service to the Arlingclose GO4OPTIONS Options Appraisal software package and includes:

  • Finance Leasing
  • Operating Leasing
  • Hire Purchase
  • Market Loans
  • NHS Bank Loans
  • Contract Hire
  • Rental Agreements
  • Cash

The bedrock of the service is that no one product is favoured, but all are evaluated with equal consideration. Each proposal is compared and evaluated taking into account factors such as:

  • Individual product discounted cash flows
  • Asset depreciation
  • Residual values
  • VAT
  • Sensitivity to factors such as period usage and interest rate changes

It is a service which provides assistance and professional interpretation in appraising various funding options. It involves the qualitative assessment of the financial results and reports generated by GO4OPTIONS software.

Included in this service is leasing and other asset finance advice which allows Trusts to procure and evaluate asset finance quotes without the additional cost of appointing a specific lease advisor, broker or consultant. It includes a full advisory service in asset finance procurement including:

  • Preparing tender documentation
  • Preparing a tender list of funders
  • Evaluation of tender responses including
  • Quantitative and qualitative factors
  • Documentation issues and templates
  • Advise on existing leases and lease portfolios
  • Early terminations
  • Asset write offs/insurance issues
  • Lease restructuring
  • Equipment finance auditing

It covers issues such as SSAP21 and FRS5, whole life costs through analysis of primary rentals, indicative extension rentals (with or without a capping device) and fixing instruments (such as the changes in money costs in relation to equipment lead times).

The Arlingclose Asset Finance Advisory Service empowers you to make better informed funding decisions.