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Misalignment Between Credit and Sales Spells Trouble

Your Virtual Credit Manager

For a small business owner or executive, navigating credit decisions can be challenging, especially when they clash with the goals of other stakeholders within the company. It's essential, however, for everybody to recognize that credit decisions also have broader implications across various aspects of company operations.

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Take a Strategic Approach to Collections

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Each past due account presents a unique set of circumstances. Consequently, your collection process needs to adapt to each situation if you are going to realize the best outcomes possible. A one size fits all approach to collections will not achieve as high a level of recoveries and cash flow as a strategic approach to collections.

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Forecasting Collections – A Key Element of Your Cash Flow

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Forecasting cash receipts from AR starts with a listing of every invoice owed you by every customer (net of any payments already made and credit memos issued). Readers of Your Virtual Credit Manager can access sharply discounted business credit reports & scores from D&B, Experian, or Equifax through our partner accredit.

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Credit Management E-learning from £99

Credit Management Group UK

Collection Performance £99 per person Running w/c 16th January 2023 Our Improving Cash Flow courses are beneficial to those new to collections, with no formal training, or to those who view the course as a refresher in credit control, wishing to improve and develop their collection techniques. Struggling to get paid?

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A Holistic Approach to Debt Collections

Your Virtual Credit Manager

People who are new to business collections are inclined to fall into one of several patterns. Seldom does a new collector appreciate the need for a balanced, holistic approach to debt collections. In time, as they become more familiar with the process of collecting, their productivity increases.

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Balancing Credit Sales with Profits

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Credit Policy is an inextricable part of a company’s Sales Policy. If you choose to sell on open credit, the terms you offer are in effect part of the price. If you discuss credit terms with a competitor, you are in violation of anti-trust statutes forbidding price fixing. What’s Right for Your Firm?

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The Imperative for Modernizing Trade Credit

Your Virtual Credit Manager

As a result, trade credit, where businesses extend financing to customers, is undergoing rapid advancements, but it also poses high risks, especially in assessing creditworthiness, dealing with economic fluctuations, and fraud. Are there past due accounts you are trying to collect? it just might help them pay you sooner!