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Every beef cattle business owner has certain considerations in choosing the type of financing to run his business. One type of external funding available comes from formal institutional financing, but household-scale beef cattle farm with small livestock ownership makes access to financing sourced from formal institutions difficult. Small-scale or household-scale beef cattle farmers are generally less able to reach formal financial institutions such as banks. The financing is expected to get additional capital so that this financial market segment is actually obtained from non-formal financial institutions such as loans from close relatives, traders of production facilities and even moneylenders. The purpose of this study is to determine the accessibility of household-scale beef cattle farmers to formal financial institutions. The types of data used in this study are qualitative and quantitative data. Research data were collected through a survey using interview techniques using a questionnaire as a research instrument. The results showed that the accessibility of household-scale beef cattle farmers to formal financial institutions was relatively low, however, non-formal financial institutions originating from close relatives tend to have relatively higher accessibility.