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Balancing Credit Sales with Profits

Your Virtual Credit Manager

It affects the level of bad debt loss (uncollected Accounts Receivables) you suffer. Selling only to financially strong customers reduces the risk of bad debt loss, (and the cost of Credit and Collections activity required). The increased risk of a significant bad debt loss that your firm bears.

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Sales Commissions Impact the Collection Process

Your Virtual Credit Manager

There was a lot of gnashing of teeth on the part of the sales team at the beginning, but invoice accuracy improved in each subsequent month as sales began transmitting accurate pricing and terms to order processing, thereby reducing downstream disputes and payment deductions. it just might help them pay you sooner!

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It's Time to Give Your AR Ledger a Spring Cleaning

Your Virtual Credit Manager

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. Reconciling items over 6 months old can be very time consuming.

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AR Data Management, AR Automation, & Accelerating Cash Flow

Your Virtual Credit Manager

What’s Involved in “Cleaning” an AR Portfolio In a perfect world, your AR Ledger would contain only whole, current invoices; or at least nothing seriously past due. Share How to Clean Up Your AR Ledger Launch a collection program to collect all past due invoices at least 15 days late.