Patent ID: 7340432

Claim:
A method implemented in a computer system comprising at least one server including a storage device storing data bases, files, program routines, and a communication network, for a trading company (TC) supporting security-trade financing for facilitating growth of a capital seeking company (CSC) having deficient assets, comprising the programmed sequential steps of: (a) processing and/or storing data identifying inventory allocations and inventory components in an inventory of products identified by the CSC; (b) calculating actual or estimated total cost basis for products in the inventory based on the inventory allocations and inventory components processed or stored in step (a); (c) obtaining a valuation of the CSC using one of a number of accepted valuation methods; (d) calculating one or more cash/trade-credit blend based on the actual or estimated total plan cost basis and the valuation of the CSC obtained; and (e) outputting one, or more than one, cash/trade-credit blend for security-trade type financing of the CSC growth by the TC.