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Gleaning Actionable Insights from Credit Scores

Your Virtual Credit Manager

As such, they are just one of the many tools, such as credit reports, supplier and bank references, and financial statement analysis, that can help assess a business's creditworthiness. Commercial credit scores are often not as well understood as consumer credit scores such as FICO.

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Resolve to Be More Proactive in 2024

Your Virtual Credit Manager

From a credit management perspective, these are largely reactive topics. In fact, once you decide to sell a customer on open credit, most of the accounts receivable (AR) management tasks that follow have a reactive component. There is nothing wrong with that.

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Three More Ways to Reduce Your Outstanding Accounts Receivable

Lockstep

Is your AR aging creeping beyond resolution? Are you even able to review and report on your aging accounts receivable? The role of accounts receivables (AR) teams is increasingly important as the backbone of your organization’s financial health. Enter Award-Winning Lockstep .

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Evidence It's Time to Adjust Your Collection Practices

Your Virtual Credit Manager

As you review your metrics, here are five signs that there may be a problem with your collection practices: DSO Is Rising: Days Sales Outstanding is the most common metric for measuring accounts receivable (AR) performance. If DSO is rising, you are falling behind.

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Don't Leave Converting Sales into Cash to Chance

Your Virtual Credit Manager

If your sales are consummated via payment at the point of sale, which may involve “pay with order” or “pay on delivery” protocols involving a credit card or an online e-payment product, managing Accounts Receivable (AR) will not be big issue for you.

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Three Ways to Reduce Your Outstanding Accounts Receivable

Lockstep

Is your AR Aging creeping beyond resolution? Are you even able to review and report on your aging accounts receivable? The role of accounts receivables (AR) teams is increasingly important as the backbone of your organization’s financial health. Enter Award-Winning Lockstep .

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Lockstep Inbox Update: AR and AP Templates

Lockstep

It’s been a great success so far, and we’ve received quite a lot of positive feedback from users. Since its launch, Lockstep Inbox has added 12 new accounts receivable (AR) templates and 12 new accounts payable (AP) templates, respectively. How does it work? Accessing the templates is easy.