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Forecasting Collections – A Key Element of Your Cash Flow

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Whether you have automated AP or not, you’ll need to generate a comprehensive listing of all vendor invoices with their amounts and due dates, which you can then sum up into weekly or monthly payment forecasts. Other common inflows may involve rent you charge, royalties, and financing, all of which are easy to forecast.

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What Triggers Your Collection Efforts?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

If all your customers paid promptly — by the time the invoice was due — you would not need to do any collection work. Collections is a reactive process. The amount of collection activity with which you are tasked is directly proportional to your customers’ payment habits.

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Cash Forecasting: More Important Than Ever

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Should you forecast a cash shortage at any point, you will then have time to: Devise ways to increase your cash inflow, often involving more aggressive collections of your accounts receivable Plan which expenditures can be reduced and/or delayed Not a subscriber … why don’t you take advantage of a free YVCM subscription?