Efekty stosowania faktoringu jako zewnętrznego źródła finansowania działalności przedsiębiorstw w świetle przeprowadzonych badań ankietowych

Enterprises running in Poland are able to finance their activity and development from various alternative sources of capital. One of them is factoring. So that an attempt to show effects of using factoring has been made in this paper. First of all, the attention has been focused on factoring as a tool of improving liquidity. The research carried out on the basis of analysis of 43 companies has proven that factoring is the best external source of financing from the point of view of insolvency. Additionally, the effects of using factoring on shaping the policy of terms of payments has been presented in the paper.