Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 2, 2024

Contacting customers to pay past due amounts (collecting) is an essential element of accounts receivable (AR) management. For most firms, late customer payments are a frequent occurrence and collecting them can be a difficult task. Another benefit is that your overall AR portfolio credit risk is reduced.

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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. It will also help your prioritize your credit reviews as recommended in item #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.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

APRIL 2, 2024

As such, they are just one of the many tools, such as credit reports, supplier and bank references, and financial statement analysis, that can help assess a business's creditworthiness. Commercial credit scores are often not as well understood as consumer credit scores such as FICO. Tuning on Your High Beams.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

(Photo by Carlos Muza on Unsplash ) A Framework for Choosing Suitable AR Metrics Businesses should carefully assess their specific needs, objectives, and operating context when selecting metrics for accounts receivable (AR) performance measurement. In fact, writing off bad debts will lower your DSO.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 23, 2024

We are currently offering 33 percent off our standard small business consulting rates. Learn More About YVCM Consulting Case Study: Portfolio Monitoring Pays Off Big-Time About 25 years ago, a credit manager I know saved his company from a seven-figure bad debt loss by monitoring the Internet on his biggest customers.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It will reduce your Accounts Receivable (AR) balance and the associated elevated credit risk inherent in a larger AR. Getting customers to pay now rather than later reduces the risk of a default down the road. Most distressed companies continue paying, until they can’t.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Photo by Willian Cittadin on Unsplash ) Neglecting collections can also lead to longer payment cycles, strained client relationships, and an increase in bad debt. A former client had the necessary credit and collection expertise for their industry. Do you need help assessing your customers’ credit risks?

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

APRIL 18, 2023

So, how can a small business acquire high level functional expertise with its “Jack of all trades” workforce, especially in regard to managing the Accounts Receivable (AR) asset? Credit Risk Evaluations : If you purchase Credit Risk Insurance, the insurer will serve as your Credit Department.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Accounts Receivable (AR) reflect a promise of payment at a future date. Though a paper asset, AR competes with Property, Plant and Equipment as well as Inventory for being the largest line item on a company’s balance sheet. Who performs the Credit & Collection activities — you or the finance company?

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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

MARCH 21, 2023

Subscribe now Lessons to Be Learned Looked at from the perspective of somebody responsible for the management of a portfolio of accounts receivable (AR), the events surrounding the SVB collapse present a cautionary tale. Any enterprise extending credit to another business needs to have real treasury expertise.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Specifically, Credit and Collections is responsible for approving new customers for credit terms and managing orders at the beginning of the O2C cycle, while also monitoring risks within the Accounts Receivable (AR) portfolio and collecting overdue payments, both of which are post-sale activities.

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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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The Esker Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

With the New Year right around the corner, it’s an opportune time for finance leaders to review, reassess and rethink their accounts receivable (AR) strategies. Talent attraction & retention Pace of digitalization & innovation Security risks & data breaches Increasing bad debt. Internally.

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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.

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Lockstep

JULY 27, 2022

However, there are also some risks associated with offering customer credit, including: . Bad debt: If customers don’t pay their bills, businesses can end up losing money on the sale. . You can also use credit reports to set credit limits for new and existing customers.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JUNE 20, 2023

As economic headwinds build, business leaders tend to batten down the hatches by cutting cost and minimizing risk. In terms of extending credit, tightening credit controls to minimize the risk of bad debt loss is a natural result of this mindset. Here’s more insights on customer profitability.

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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. What Is an AR Aging Report? This ensures your invoicing processes are aligned with their accounts payable.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

APRIL 4, 2023

With a growing number of experts predicting a recession to hit later this year, and inflation and interest rates remaining at elevated levels, squeezing every dollar out of your investment in Accounts Receivable (AR) is more important than ever. Remember, a “clean” AR Ledger is the objective.

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Gaviti

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As accounting processes continue to evolve, it’s becoming increasingly clear that harnessing the power of technology can help businesses streamline their operations and make more informed decisions. Below, we’re reviewing some of the top accounts receivable challenges in 2023 and offering quick ways to shore up your collections process.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

MARCH 26, 2024

Economic circumstances may prompt a vendor to either tighten or loosen its credit policies and customer credit limits. Going beyond the impact of macroeconomic trends, a company’s customers operate in dynamic business environments, and for a majority of them, the credit risk they pose is either increasing or decreasing.

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