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Resolve to Be More Proactive in 2024

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Segmenting your receivables can be based on any number of criteria: industry type, distribution channel, customer risk rating or score, credit limit, AR aging and so on. While these are all useful as a secondary segmentation, the place you want to start is with customer annual purchases from your firm.

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Gleaning Actionable Insights from Credit Scores

Your Virtual Credit Manager

You should also segment your AR portfolio to see how risk is distributed by things like customer purchasing volume, distribution channel, industry type, geographic region, AR aging bucket, and so forth.

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Don't Leave Converting Sales into Cash to Chance

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Under-performing AR has the potential to create a cash flow crisis that can shut down your business in very short order. Without effective AR management, your cash flow is subject to entropy as the AR ages, as well as to the shocks caused by customer defaults.

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Evidence It's Time to Adjust Your Collection Practices

Your Virtual Credit Manager

The point is, if DSO is rising, you need to check to determine if collections are the problem. Receivables Are Getting Older: Your AR aging report categorizes outstanding invoices by their age. If a significant portion of your receivables are in the "overdue" categories (e.g.,

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Three More Ways to Reduce Your Outstanding Accounts Receivable

Lockstep

Is your AR aging creeping beyond resolution? Are you even able to review and report on your aging accounts receivable? The role of accounts receivables (AR) teams is increasingly important as the backbone of your organization’s financial health.

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7 Accounts Receivable Goals for Growth in 2023 & Beyond

The Esker Blog

Historically, the processes within collections, cash application and credit management are highly manual. With collections, this could look like manually sorting and filtering through AR aging reports or searching for follow-ups in Outlook calendars and even sticky notes.

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The Definitive Guide to Debt Financing

Fundera

Accounts Receivables Aging Statement – Invoice-based businesses rely heavily on their receivables to maintain good cash flow. Provide your most recent AR aging statement to show how quickly your customers pay you as evidence of your business’s cash flow.