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Resolve to Be More Proactive in 2024

Your Virtual Credit Manager

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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Accounts Receivable Analysis: Meaning, Objectives, Importance

Gaviti

Are you offering enough or too much credit to customers? Are you able to collect invoices on all of the revenue your business generates? Are we offering the right amount of credit to customers based on their creditworthiness? That could also involve severing ties with the client and selling the debt to a collection agency.

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AR Data Management, AR Automation, & Accelerating Cash Flow

Your Virtual Credit Manager

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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The Importance of the Accounts Receivable Aging Report

Gaviti

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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7 Strategies to Reduce DSO and Enhance Cash Flow

Gaviti

Understanding Days Sales Outstanding Days Sales Outstanding, or DSO , is the average number of days it takes a company to collect revenue from an invoice. Accounting operations managers use DSO to calculate the general ability of a company to collect invoices on time for a specific period (e.g. Automate the collections process.

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