Your Virtual Credit Manager

APRIL 2, 2024

Commercial credit scores predict the likelihood of a business fulfilling its financial obligations, particularly regarding debt repayment and trade credit. Commercial credit scores are often not as well understood as consumer credit scores such as FICO.

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Credit Management Group UK

APRIL 21, 2024

The best way of avoiding credit control issues in your business is to ensure that you are paid in full before providing any goods or services. The majority of B2B businesses offer credit terms to their customers. Offering credit to customers does have cost implications to a business and you should be mindful of what those costs are.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 23, 2024

Approving a customer for credit terms is merely the first step in an open credit relationship. Economic circumstances may cause you to tighten your credit policies and customer credit limits. In this case, ongoing Portfolio Monitoring was critical to turning up the customer intelligence that avoided a huge bad debt loss.

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Credit Management Group UK

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

I ask these businesses each time, if your current collection procedure isn’t working, why are you still using it? You are at risk of late payment and even bad debt if you take on a customer with a poor credit rating, a risk that can be reduced if you credit check them prior to carrying out any work.

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Credit Management Group UK

JULY 19, 2023

Small businesses need to ensure they have the most effective credit management systems and skills to tackle late payment seriously, to avoid becoming one of those statistics. Yet many companies take a ‘sledge hammer’ approach to collecting payment from their customers. Credit management should be ‘customer focused’.

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Credit Management Group UK

APRIL 11, 2023

Using the credit management tools available to you effectively can greatly increase your chances of getting paid more quickly. Making small changes to your collection strategy to incorporate all tools at your disposal can make a big impact on your collection performance.

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MNS Credit Management Group

JULY 12, 2023

Bad debt recovery: What is it? The money that your company receives after writing off bad debt as uncollectible is known as bad debt recovery. When the borrower is unable to repay the lender within the allotted time, the bad debt recovery process is initiated. How may loan risks be diminished?

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TreviPay

MARCH 20, 2023

Credit management is integral to accounts receivable management. Good credit management supports consistent cash flow, smooth payment collections, customer satisfaction, and much else. It covers multiple different smaller components involved in issuing, monitoring, and collecting credit.

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Credit Management Group UK

MARCH 4, 2024

Some may find the thought of managing financial risk daunting, but it should be straight forward. The decision making process for granting a potential customer credit should be made up of a jigsaw of several different types of information, rather than relying on one method only.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Extending credit is the financial backbone of Business-to-Business (B2B) commerce. Not being paid in full or in part causes a bad debt loss. Not being paid on time reduces profits commensurate with your cost of capital and cost of collections — the longer the time it takes to be paid, the higher those costs.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Photo by Ralph Hutter on Unsplash Confronted with high interest rates and inflation, and heading into a what is increasingly looking like a recession, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) will probably need to use a Collection Agency more than they have in the past.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

MAY 14, 2024

If conditions are satisfactory and all your credit and collection assignments have been completed, you can then address the many other tasks and challenges requiring your attention. Do you need help collecting past due receivables or understanding your customer portfolio risks? Why Are Metrics Needed if You Have an AR Ledger?

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

AUGUST 8, 2023

Collecting from other businesses begins as a series of reminders followed by administrative tasks to provide your customer with the information they need to pay your invoice, and can also involve reconciling your information to theirs. To be effective at this requires good process and time management. Subscribe now 1.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Accounts receivable (AR) represent the amounts owed your business by your customers for the purchase of goods or services delivered on credit. Because AR constitutes one of largest assets on your books, proactively managing accounts receivable is crucial for the financial health of your business. What do you need help doing?

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This prediction, although bold, is corroborated by the broader economic data, including escalating corporate bankruptcies, tightening loan standards by banks, and the surge in delinquent debt balances and consumer debt. For more on credit evaluations, check out this post. Here’s more on setting credit limits.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Financial Health Priorities: Organizations may have specific financial health priorities such as improving liquidity, managing working capital, or reducing credit risk. The experts at Your Virtual Credit Manager are ready to help you improve cash flow and reduce AR risks during these challenging times.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Looking around us, the Amazons, Netflixes, and HubSpots of the world were billing and charging clients automatically, while our business’s billing and collections looked pretty much the same as it had been done before computers. As invoices age further past due, the probability of a bad debt loss increases.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Processing Delays There are several AR activities that often take longer than they should and therefore cause delays: processing credit applications, approving orders, generating invoices, and posting payments. Credit evaluations, however, often take time. In small companies, this may occur due to a lack of credit analysis skills.

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Know-It Global

APRIL 26, 2023

As a business owner, it’s essential to understand and manage credit risk to maintain a healthy cash flow and avoid financial losses. Credit risk is the potential for a borrower to fail to repay a loan or credit extended to them. Set credit limits based on the customer’s creditworthiness and payment history.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

MAY 16, 2023

When a commercial account wants to buy your product, chances are they will want credit terms. Business credit, also known as trade credit, facilitates the flow of goods and services between business trading partners. The purpose behind extending trade credit is to facilitate the sale of some other product or service.

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Credit Management Group UK

AUGUST 17, 2023

For many businesses, particularly those in B2B businesses, offering credit to customers is a necessity in order to remain competitive. Considering this, every business needs to have procedures in place that determines what payment terms a customer will receive, and how much credit they will be given.

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Lockstep

JUNE 15, 2022

For B2B businesses, credit management is essential for accounts receivable (AR) management success. Proper, healthy credit management allows for steady cash flow, better collections management and a manageable days sales outstanding (DSO). . Getting Started . External and Supporting Data .

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 9, 2024

Then last week we looked at credit hold best practices. 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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Your Virtual Credit Manager

APRIL 11, 2023

Subscribe now Ten Reasons Accounts Receivables Under Perform Failure to Conduct Credit Checks: Sometimes newer business are so excited to get an order, they fail to check the new customer’s credit, only to end up selling to a deadbeat and not getting paid. Here’s more on Credit Checks.

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JSP Credit Management

MAY 26, 2022

But what we do feel duty bound to do is be realistic about the risks that businesses are exposed to when their credit management department is not given its fair share of TLC. Our first suggestion relates to the decision on whether or not to extend credit to your customer.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 3, 2023

Over time, AR Ledgers unfortunately tend to collect “Clutter.” Clutter can also cause new orders to be placed on a credit hold when it otherwise would have been automatically released. Share How to Clean Up Your AR Ledger Launch a collection program to collect all past due invoices at least 15 days late.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

AUGUST 22, 2023

The bad news is that nearly 21 percent of last year’s startups will fail this year leaving you with a bad debt on your books if you sold to them on credit terms. This is why age is an extremely important consideration when extending credit. The good news is that this is an increase in potential customers.

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MNS Credit Management Group

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In addition to giving solicitors instructions to start legal proceedings, we also offer credit management services including sending letters of demand prior to legal action, a service that looks into a company’s history, credit reports, and status reports. The other is debt collection between businesses, also known as B2B.

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aptic

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In the wake of the banking crisis, the European Central Bank (ECB) defined three grades of non-performing loans: past due, unlikely-to-pay (UTP) and bad loans. Today, the UTP category is more relevant than ever in the field of credit management. To identify UTP debts, you need to pick up on the warning signs in good time.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 10, 2023

Photo by Patrick Hendry on Unsplash Although defaults resulting in significant bad debt losses are a rare event for trade creditors, much of the focus of AR Management is on credit risk. Banks make money by lending so they pay close attention to the credit risk of the borrower. What are these barriers?

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Emagia

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

OTC, the main cash flow driver, has many subsets within it, and credit management is more important than it looks on the surface. The top line and bottom line will be positively impacted when a sales order is received and fulfilled, but your business is at risk till you collect cash against the invoice.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

DECEMBER 6, 2022

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. This software firm did not actively manage its AR.

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Know-It Global

MAY 8, 2023

As a business owner, it’s essential to understand and manage credit risk to maintain a healthy cash flow and avoid financial losses. Credit risk is the potential for a borrower to fail to repay a loan or credit extended to them. Set credit limits based on the customer’s creditworthiness and payment history.

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MNS Credit Management Group

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Many businesses that owe money to creditors use debt collectors, who work for a fee or a portion of the total amount collected. Some debt collectors are also debt purchasers; these businesses buy debt below its face value and then make an effort to collect the entire amount owed. Key Takeaways.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Share Controlling Credit Risk Increasing sales to high margin customers disproportionately increases total gross profit. Explore options such as third party security on the debt owed you: Credit Insurance, an irrevocable Letter of Credit, obtaining collateral by filing a UCC Security Agreement, or a Guaranty of the debt by a third party.

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Know-It Global

MAY 8, 2023

As a business owner, it’s essential to understand and manage credit risk to maintain a healthy cash flow and avoid financial losses. Credit risk is the potential for a borrower to fail to repay a loan or credit extended to them. Set credit limits based on the customer’s creditworthiness and payment history.

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