Small Business Financing Profiles

Small Business Financing Profiles are short reference documents on a specific segment of the small business marketplace. These papers provide a detailed profile of the financial/ownership structure and types of financing used by the segment targeted. They identify access to financing issues and pose future research questions that need to be addressed. The information for these profiles is drawn from national surveys administered by Statistics Canada on small and medium-sized enterprises (Survey on Financing of Small and Medium Enterprises) and financial providers (Survey of Suppliers of Business Financing). Industry Canada supplements these surveys with additional research into niche areas of SME financing.