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

DECEMBER 20, 2022

All these bad customer behaviors are a drain on your profit. Share Controlling Credit Risk Increasing sales to high margin customers disproportionately increases total gross profit. Buy Credit Reports Managing Credit In-house Your other option is to assess, monitor and control the bad debt exposure yourself.

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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

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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Your Virtual Credit Manager

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

If your AR is deteriorating, you better diagnose the problem as quickly as possible so you don’t incur cash flow problems and bad debt losses. Share Collections Effectiveness Index (CEI) The CEI provides a measure of collection effectiveness expressed as a percentage. The faster your AR turns over, the better.

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Gaviti

APRIL 18, 2024

As an assessment and diagnostic tool, it’s hard to overstate the importance of your company’s accounts receivable (AR) collections aging report. This report is a valuable tactic to stay on top of cash flow and improve short-term collections forecasting. Cash flow problems usually relate to collection policies or customer behavior.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Photo by Jp Valery on Unsplash Payment deductions, also known as chargebacks or short pays, happen when the customer pays less than the full invoice amount. Should you confirm that the customer is indeed correct, the deduction is removed from the Accounts Receivable (AR) ledger via a credit memo. Well, it’s not.

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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

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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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. When a client owes a business money, consumer collections take place.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

APRIL 4, 2023

Supporting profitable sales through the extension of credit Collecting as much of the AR generated as possible by or near the due date to ensure a substantial cash inflow Mitigating the risk of bad debt losses These tasks are best accomplished in a tidy environment. What constitutes optimization of a company’s AR?

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

MARCH 21, 2023

Any enterprise extending credit to another business needs to have real treasury expertise. In addition to the effect of inflation, AR loses value as a result of profit dilution (when customers do not pay you the full invoice value due to payment deductions or disputes) and bad debt losses.

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Waystar

MARCH 15, 2023

With a staggering amount of patient bad debt on the horizon, it’s crucial to execute a reliable pre-visit clearance process. In order to transform the clearance process, you must estimate and communicate the patient’s financial responsibility, including any unmet deductibles, before service. PAtient financial experience TIP: 3.

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Fundera

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

But while there’s a wealth of information out there about tax deductions for business owners in general, when you run your business out of your home, it can be far more challenging to understand how some of those policies apply. If you or your spouse are 65 years or older, you can deduct expenses that exceed 7.5% Finance Deductions.

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Emagia

JANUARY 30, 2023

Customer Experience: Customer experience is enhanced through smooth and efficient management of orders, receivables, credit, etc., Finance Cost: RPA and Analytics helps enhance the efficiency in invoicing, receivable management, and payment collection to minimize the need for credit or working capital loan.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Now that you understand that your customer has become a liability, it’s time to review their credit worthiness again so you can make informed choices. Order a new credit report, request updated financial statements, and re-check the references provided when they first applied for credit.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

MAY 23, 2023

Incidentally, the higher your gross margin, the more latitude you have in extending credit to marginally risky accounts. Any subsequent collection expenses and bad debt write-offs are more easily recouped through additional sales than if your gross margins are low. The issue with problematic customers is profit dilution.

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Waystar

MARCH 15, 2023

With a staggering amount of patient bad debt on the horizon, it’s crucial to execute a reliable pre-visit clearance process. In order to transform the clearance process, you must estimate and communicate the patient’s financial responsibility, including any unmet deductibles, before service. PAtient financial experience TIP: 3.

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Lendio

MAY 23, 2023

Send out reminders to collect on outstanding income for the year. Pro Tip : Any invoice overdue by 90 days that you are unable to collect on is considered “bad debt” and may be eligible to be a tax write-off. See Which Tax Credits You Qualify For A tax credit will decrease the total amount you owe on your total tax bill.

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Gaviti

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In many cases, they lead to deductions, so your A/R team needs a process that supports deductions as well. Disputes often lead to two different types of deductions: earned and claims. Claims deductions are made by the customer for a specific reason, such as if a product arrives partially damaged.

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Serrala

MARCH 14, 2024

With our AI-powered cash application, AP automation, collections and disputes, and Bill Pay solutions, your company can achieve high AR automation, collections, and payment matching rates of up to 99%. Read more Stay secure and compliant safeguard your business against legal, data, cyber, and financial risk with minimal overhead.

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Emagia

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Automation of accounts receivable is the process of automating various manual tasks involved AR process like invoicing, collecting, and tracking receivable to ensure timely collection. Credit Management The starting point in the AR process is credit check, though that is part of broader OTC process.

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CreditStrong for Business

MARCH 10, 2023

Late payments remain on your credit bureau report and influence your credit score for seven years. Fortunately, there are ways to improve your overall credit profile to offset the adverse results that late payments have on your credit score. What Is Considered as a Late Payment? on the due date are deemed as late.

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Serrala

MARCH 14, 2024

With our AI-powered cash application, collections and disputes, credit risk management, and Bill Pay solutions, your company can achieve high AR automation and payment matching rates of up to 99%. Read more Our solutions give you the power to automate processes across your credit risk management lifecycle.

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Credit Management Group UK

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As previously employed as a Credit Manager by a national recruitment company and working for many recruitment firms since setting up CMG UK we have a vast amount of experience in making sure our clients get paid. Lesson : We now credit check all out client’s potential new customers companies and confirm full legal entity name at the outset.

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Fundera

DECEMBER 29, 2019

There are a couple of reasons why you might want to write off an invoice in QuickBooks : Bad debt. If you write off an invoice for a customer due to bad debt, you will want to retain this information so you don’t sell to that customer on credit again. How to Write off a Bad Debt Invoice in QuickBooks.

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Gaviti

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

That’s because the credit and debit entries should balance each other out. For example, someone on the A/R team could have transposed numbers, entered a transaction for the wrong account, or extended credit to the wrong account. Ad-Hoc Credit Extensions Sometimes, companies extend additional credit as compensation or a bonus.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JUNE 13, 2023

Open Credit Terms dominate the Business-to-Business (B2B) marketplace. Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash There are two types of credit risk that arise from selling on open credit terms: Customers paying beyond terms (past due) reduce your cash flow. These bad debt losses can put your own business at risk of failure.

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