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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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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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Managing Credit Risk to Maximize Revenue in Tough Times

Your Virtual Credit Manager

In terms of extending credit, tightening credit controls to minimize the risk of bad debt loss is a natural result of this mindset. In our experience, sales and credit risk are never evenly distributed across a company’s accounts receivable (AR) portfolio, which raises opportunities.

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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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The Importance of the Accounts Receivable Aging Report

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As an assessment and diagnostic tool, it’s hard to overstate the importance of your company’s accounts receivable (AR) collections aging report. What Is an AR Aging Report? As an assessment and diagnostic tool, it’s hard to overstate the importance of your company’s accounts receivable (A/R) aging report.