Report: Analysis of Potential Funding Sources for Bubbly-Bakery.com

This report provides an analysis of potential funding sources for Bubbly-Bakery.com, a successful bakery located in West London, UK. The report explores various options, including bank loans and investors, examining their respective benefits and drawbacks. It also addresses funding sources specifically for events, such as afternoon teas, suggesting options like savings and funds from friends and family. The conclusion emphasizes the availability of multiple funding avenues for the bakery and encourages the management to leverage these resources. References to academic journals and books support the analysis, providing a foundation for the financial strategies discussed.

ASSESSMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1 (A).....................................................................................................................................3
Potential funding sources.............................................................................................................3
TASK 1 (B)......................................................................................................................................4
Sources of funding for events......................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
This report discusses different potential funding sources for the Bubbly-Bakery.com. It is
a very successful bakery business, situated in West London, UK. There are benefits and
drawbacks of each funding source also has been discussed in this report (Ausrød, Sinha and
Widding,b 2017).
TASK 1 (A)
Potential funding sources
Currently there are lots of potential and appropriate sources of funding are simply
available in the market which can support to existing management of this bakery firm for easily
arranging required fund for its business operations. In this situation some major sources of
funding have been discussed below for the Bubbly-Bakery.com with their respective benefits and
drawbacks.
Bank Loans
This is one of the most popular funding sources to different businesses, in which top-level
management of this bakery should be used this source within its daily operations for raising fund.
Currently many of businesses in the market are taking huge advantages by this source of funding,
in which existing management of t Bubbly-Bakery.com also has required to take decision
towards using this potential source of funding (Kim and Wyckoff, 2016). Banks provides both type
of loan facilities called, short term loan and long-term loan, so that this is the benefit of this
source. On the other side, top-level management of bakery will be required to fulfil very
complicated paper work formality, so that this is the drawback of this source.
Investors
This is another key potential funding source to the Bubbly-Bakery.com, in which existing
management this business can use this source also for raising appropriate fund. Currently there
are lots of investors exists within the market, so this bakery firm needs to be convinced them for
investing business. According to the current well-reputed market image of bakery, the

management can simply convince los of investors to invest in its bakery business. Bubbly-
Bakery.com will no need to fulfil complicated formality while raising fund through this source,
so that this is benefit of this source. On the other side, the owner of this business will be lost its
full ownership on business after raising fund from this source, so that this is the drawback of
this source.
TASK 1 (B)
Sources of funding for events
Currently the Bubbly-Bakery.com has decided to arrange a range afternoon teas events to
local dignitaries, so that top-level management of this bakery need to find out appropriate
sources of funding for these events as well. In this situation, this company can use different
funding sources, like; savings, friends and family etc. so that, existing management of this
bakery business can be simply raised required fund from these sources of funding for these
afternoon teas events (Morkunas, Paschen and Boon, 2019). Currently Bubbly-Bakery.com is a very
successful company, so its owner may have sufficient savings, this is very common thing. In this
situation, management should use its savings, and it also need to take fund from its friends and
family as well.
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded that there are many of potential funding sources easily available to
Bubbly-Bakery.com in the market place, so that upper management of this business should take
advantages through these all sources.

REFERENCES
Books & Journals
Ausrød, V. L., Sinha, V. and Widding, Ø., 2017. Business model design at the base of the
pyramid. Journal of cleaner production. 162. pp.982-996.
Kim, K. and Wyckoff, T., 2016. What's in your list?: A survey of business database holdings and funding
sources at top academic institutions. Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship. 21(2).
pp.135-151.
Morkunas, V. J., Paschen, J. and Boon, E., 2019. How blockchain technologies impact your business
model. Business Horizons. 62(3). pp.295-306.