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Are Your Credit & Collection Policies Aligned with Company Goals?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

At many companies, credit policy is an afterthought. When sales and production goals are set, and then the budget formalized, scant consideration is given to the impact on credit policy. Photo by Piret Ilver on Unsplash ) Too often, credit and collections are an afterthought. There are invoice disputes.

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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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What is Accounts Receivable Process Cycle? A Comprehensive Guide

Emagia

The Accounts Receivable (AR) Process Cycle is a fundamental component of a company’s financial operations, encompassing the series of actions taken to manage and collect payments owed by customers for goods or services provided on credit. Electronic invoicing helps in quick delivery and tracking.

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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?

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The Case for Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Businesses have been digitizing ever since the introduction of accounting software in the 1960s. Over the past quarter century, these tools have become much more robust as it relates to O2C activities, but still do not provide a unified solution that addresses all the activities performed by credit and collections as well as the AR function.