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Position Your AR to Enhance Working Capital

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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. Here’s what you need to do to get full collateral value from your AR: 1.

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Sales Commissions Impact the Collection Process

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Photo by Alex Radelich on Unsplash When small businesses add customers and increase sales, their company’s Accounts Receivable (AR) will grow. it just might help them pay you sooner!

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Is Your O2C Process Optimized for Superior AR Performance?

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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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Effectively Collecting Receivables Is a Time Management Challenge

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Effective collections can also reduce bad debt losses by compensating for a liberal or weak Credit Control function. Simply defined, collections is the process of contacting customers to secure payment for your invoices. For the most part collections deals with past due invoices — those not paid within established terms.

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Debt Collection Mistakes Can Prove Costly

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This also requires that your don’t set yourself further behind by making mistakes collecting your debts. Having your collection efforts back-stopped by a collection agency provides additional leverage to your efforts to get your customers to pay, avoid bad debt losses and preserve future sales to seriously delinquent customers.

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

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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. They instead are non-performing assets that take time and money to recover.