Hilton Baird

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A look at the pros and cons of writing off aged debts, the options businesses have at this stage, as well as how bad debt relief can impact businesses. The post Copy of Navigating aged debts: The pros and cons of writing off bad debt appeared first on Hilton-Baird Collection Services.

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Chaser

JULY 1, 2024

Is your business struggling with bad debt? Among these challenges, dealing with bad debt is a persistent obstacle that can significantly impact your business’s financial health. Managing finances and ensuring consistent cash flow are critical challenges that every business must navigate effectively to remain profitable.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 2, 2024

If collections are not done properly and in an adequate frequency , your AR will age, cash flow will decrease, and the risk of bad debt loss will increase. The customer may purchase smaller quantities, which might marginally reduce your annual revenue, but in return your cash flow benefits and your risk of bad debts is reduced.

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Chaser

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Bad debt is the amount of money that a business has not been able to collect from its customers. The direct financial implications of bad debt include reduced cash flow , decreased profit, and increased risk for the company. Bad debt also has an emotional toll on business owners and employees.

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Credit Research Foundation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

According to CRF’s data, companies that invest in credit risk management training and resources experience lower bad debt write-offs and improvements in Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) during economic downturns. Failure to prepare could leave your company vulnerable to significant financial losses and cash flow disruptions.

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Credit Research Foundation

JANUARY 11, 2024

This investment enhances customer service, increases productivity, and utilizes data to analyze new customer accounts while monitoring existing customers nearing default and taking proactive, timely actions to reduce bad debt expense.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Not being paid in full or in part causes a bad debt loss. The first step is to estimate how much bad debt loss you can absorb as a percentage of sales in a year. Conversely, if the profit margin is low, bad debt losses will have a much greater impact, and credit controls will have to be tighter.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

MARCH 14, 2023

Focus on the over 60 day past due AR balances to get the most bang for your collection buck This approach foregoes a huge cash flow opportunity (collecting AR that is under 60 days past due), and is not very effective at preventing bad debt (too little, too late). For more on collection efficiency, check out this article.

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RevCycle

JUNE 27, 2024

The Future of Healthcare Bad Debt As mentioned earlier in this post, no one can be sure what the future holds for the possibility of further credit reporting restrictions. Now more than ever, bad debt collection is something maximized not by brute force, but rather the use of soft skills and a human-centric approach.

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MNS Credit Management Group

JULY 12, 2023

Bad debt recovery: What is it? The money that your company receives after writing off bad debt as uncollectible is known as bad debt recovery. When the borrower is unable to repay the lender within the allotted time, the bad debt recovery process is initiated. How can bad debts be recouped?

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

DECEMBER 24, 2024

The only time AR comes to the forefront is when there is economic turmoil and an increased risk of bad debt losses. Bad debt risk controlled according to your risk appetite. Otherwise, controllers and CFOs are focused on other areas. Access to the agency’s credit and collections expertise.

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Eastern Credit Management Services

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

The post How To Minimize Bad Debt For Small Business appeared first on Eastern Credit Management Services. Preparing yourself and your customer beforehand with credit applications and checks, then following up via phone after the account is overdue are sure-fire ways to minimize your overdue accounts receivable when extending credit.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It affects the level of bad debt loss (uncollected Accounts Receivables) you suffer. Selling only to financially strong customers reduces the risk of bad debt loss, (and the cost of Credit and Collections activity required). The increased risk of a significant bad debt loss that your firm bears.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Increased Bad Debt : Inadequate credit checks can result in over extending credit to high-risk customers, leading to slow payments and ultimately bad debt write-offs. Employ Shared Metrics and KPIs : Establishing common key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics across departments fosters aligned objectives.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Simply put, if customers have weak financials or a history of late payments or defaults, there is an elevated risk of bad debt. That does not mean you will be able to avoid all bad debt losses due to business failures, but rather be able to minimize them. it just might help them pay you sooner!

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Subscribe now Impact of Offering Discounts From the seller’s perspective, the effect on revenue from offering an early pay discount needs to be weighed against the potential reduction in Accounts Receivable (AR) carrying costs, bad debt and collection expenses. it just might help them pay you sooner!

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 17, 2023

it just might help them pay you sooner!

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash As discussed in several prior newsletters, the threat of bad debt loss and diminished cash flow from delayed payments increases significantly during a recession. This inevitably result… Read more.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JUNE 25, 2024

A growing volume of receivables overdue by more than 90 days indicates you are having severe challenges collecting payments before then, posing a significant risk of write-offs or bad debts. Commensurate with a rising expectation of defaults, is a worsening of the quality of your AR portfolio along with profit shrinkage.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Photo by Ben Cliff on Unsplash A key objective of Accounts Receivable (AR) management is minimizing past due AR to ensure cash in-flows and minimize bad debt losses.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This creates cash flow shortages, increased risk of bad debt, and a significant work requirement to mitigate the impact of late payments. Photo by Muyuan Ma on Unsplash For most companies, a quarter to a third (and maybe more), of their customers will pay significantly beyond the terms of sale.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

APRIL 18, 2023

to minimize the chance of bad debt loss. Quality Pro — In terms of collections, more complete AR portfolio coverage ensuring all past due accounts are contacted to accelerate their payments and to identify emerging bad debt risks, greater expertise across all AR functions. Then you have a cost/benefit comparison.

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Know-It Global

APRIL 26, 2023

Failure to manage credit risk can lead to bad debts, cashflow problems, and eventually, business failure. Use trade credit insurance Trade credit insurance is a type of insurance that protects businesses from bad debts. Credit risk is the potential for a borrower to fail to repay a loan or credit extended to them.

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aptic

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The post From unlikely-to-pay debt to bad debt: how to detect underperforming debtors appeared first on Aptic. Contact me to learn about Aptic’s innovative solutions for credit processing, factoring, e-commerce and retail payments, invoice to cash and leasing! Rick Terra.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

APRIL 11, 2023

Late or inconsistent follow-up on overdue accounts leads to longer payment cycles and increased bad debt write-offs. Failure to monitor your receivables, and identify the emerging risks in your AR portfolio, leads to missed payments, increased bad debt write-offs, and reduced cash flow. Business failures are the norm.

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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. This is a great way to indemnify your company from most bad debt losses.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 23, 2024

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. We are currently offering 33 percent off our standard small business consulting rates.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

AUGUST 6, 2024

The goal is not preventing bad debt losses but rather maximizing profits. If you should try to eliminate all bad debt losses, chances are you will forego sales to customers that will eventually pay. On the one hand, controlling bad debt and delinquency losses is critical.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

OCTOBER 15, 2024

As a consequence, commercial accounts receivable (AR) portfolios are at an increasing risk of suffering bad debt losses. The immediate precursor to bad debts is increasing percentages of delinquent receivables, especially in the over 60 and 90 day aging categories. Commensurate with that, the Federal Reserve Bank of St.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The reduction in revenue and margin, while painful, will be a smaller price to pay than a large drop in incoming cash and the higher risk of a larger, damaging, bad debt. Offering Prompt Payment Discounts to customers can significantly advance your cash inflow from AR and reduce overall exposure to bad debt loss.

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Gaviti

APRIL 11, 2024

How much bad debt does the company have, and how has this changed over time? Consider these additional KPIs: Bad debt ratio: This measures the monetary value of receivables you believe you cannot collect. What are the average days sales outstanding? Are you offering discounts for early payment? Disputes and deductions.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JUNE 18, 2024

Photo by Muhammad Daudy on Unsplash ) The problem with startup companies: there is a high probability they will fail , leaving you with a bad debt on your books. To better understand your risk parameters, start by estimating how much bad debt loss you can afford to absorb in a year.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

AUGUST 1, 2023

Absorb the impact up front and be done with it. Forecasting recovery is difficult and it will be an accounting issue you’ll need to revisit every quarter.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Over the next eight months: DSO was reduced from 63 to 41 days $61 million in AR was converted to CA$H Bad debt expense was reduced by $2.2 million These two simple, common sense enhancements to the Collection Process delivered huge results.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

AUGUST 29, 2023

Bad Debt Write-Offs Are Increasing: When bad debts get ahead of budget, you need to take a look at why that is happening. It could be a single larger-size default has skewed bad debts higher, in which case collections are probably not the problem (however, you might want to check your credit policies).

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Effective collections can also reduce bad debt losses by compensating for a liberal or weak Credit Control function. The task is twofold: Optimizing cash inflows (and avoiding bad debt) confined by the number of requests for payment that can be made within a specified time period.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Doesn't Account for Bad Debts : DSO doesn't differentiate between collectible and noncollectable receivables. A company may have a low DSO but still face significant losses due to bad debts. In fact, writing off bad debts will lower your DSO.

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