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Due Diligence Doesn't End with the Credit Application

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We are currently offering 33 percent off our standard small business consulting rates. Learn More About YVCM Consulting Case Study: Portfolio Monitoring Pays Off Big-Time About 25 years ago, a credit manager I know saved his company from a seven-figure bad debt loss by monitoring the Internet on his biggest customers.

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Get Ready for a Wave of Commercial Bankruptcies

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Clearly, the level of Business Credit Risk is going to remain elevated as we move through 2024, bringing with it the potential for corresponding increases in bad debt and delinquency. The good news is that there are a number of actions you can take to reduce your loss exposure and shore up your accounts receivable (AR).

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Avoid Falling Into These 7 AR Management Traps

Your Virtual Credit Manager

As a small business owner or executive, managing accounts receivable (AR) and navigating through various credit decisions is an integral part of the job. After all, credit and collections is essential to the performance of your order-to-cash (O2C) process and cash conversion cycle.

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Debt Collection Mistakes Can Prove Costly

Your Virtual Credit Manager

This also requires that your don’t set yourself further behind by making mistakes collecting your debts. Unauthorized Disclosures Even though you are collecting from another business, you need to make sure you are communicating with the proper parties at that business.

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Is Your AR Generating All the Cash Flow It Should?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Effectively managing accounts receivable (AR) is essential for a company's financial well-being. Poor receivables performance affects cash flow, and it is no secret that cash flow problems are the leading cause of business failures. More About Purchasing Credit Reports 4.

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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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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.