New research from independent IT financier Syscap shows that UK
schools are increasingly turning to sale and leasebacks for raising
capital.
According to Syscap, sale and leaseback is “one of the fastest
growing areas of financing” for schools, enabling them to use the
released cash to acquire further equipment or for more general
expenditure.
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“Schools sit on an extremely valuable set of assets but they
find it very hard to use those assets to deal with temporary
problems with their cash flow or to make one-off capital investment
requirements,” said Philip White, CEO of Syscap.
“As long as the lease payments are transparent, this is a very
low-risk transaction.”
Syscap, which provides funding to over 2,000 schools across all
local authorities, believes that too many schools are still
investing inefficiently by making piecemeal acquisitions of IT
equipment over several years.
“Finance allows schools and colleges to match payments against
cash flow over several years. Acquisitions can be made in the best
strategic interest of the school rather than trying to cram
everything into one annual budget,” White added.
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