Your Virtual Credit Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

While bankruptcy filings have not increased substantially in the past year, they have begun to tick up and it is widely anticipated that filing will continue to increase as pandemic relief is finally spent, revenues decrease due to a faltering economy, and costs increase due to inflation and rising interest rates.

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TreviPay

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

This type of insurance acts as a safety net, covering unpaid invoices when clients default or face financial difficulties. Its primary purpose is to mitigate the financial risks of trade credit by covering outstanding receivables if a customer defaults because of insolvency or other financial difficulties.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The one measure that may fall short if the customer defaults is a Uniform Commercial code (UCC) Security Agreement — you may not be able to recover all your collateral or the proceeds thereof, especially if your UCC filing puts you in a second position behind a lender, which is a common situation.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

MAY 16, 2023

By avoiding the following common traps, or myths if you will, businesses can minimize the risk of non-payment or default and make better informed decisions about extending credit to other businesses that will boost sales and profits. Credit evaluations prevent more bad debts than collection efforts.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

AUGUST 22, 2023

The bad news is that nearly 21 percent of last year’s startups will fail this year leaving you with a bad debt on your books if you sold to them on credit terms. However, when the new customer(s) are startups, extending credit can be very risky and potentially damaging should substantial bad debt losses result.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

You also should be checking for derogatory information — liens, judgements, prior bankruptcies, etc — found on their credit report or in public records. When unobserved risks build up in your AR, the impact will be slower payments and defaults leading to bad debts. Here’s more on credit evaluations.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Commercial bankruptcies have been trending upward for most of this year, so it is likely some of your customers are in a downward spiral, if it has not yet shown up in their payment pattern. From this conversation, you will learn how perilous the bad debt risk is with this customer, and how urgent your reaction must be.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Cash Flow is the number one cause of small business bankruptcies. 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. The company ended up writing off millions of dollars in bad debt. This software firm did not actively manage its AR.

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MNS Credit Management Group

AUGUST 7, 2023

However, there is always the possibility of loan default. A business credit score is a credit rating that indicates how likely a company is to repay its loans on schedule and without default. The use of debt The ratio of credit utilised by a firm to credit available to a business is known as debt utilisation.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JUNE 13, 2023

Far more damaging is a customer that defaults (never pays). These bad debt losses can put your own business at risk of failure. The inability to recover the loss with new business puts a serious crimp in a firm’s cash flow, especially when the default involves a large amount.

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CreditStrong for Business

JULY 11, 2024

This conservative method keeps them from losing money on defaulted loans and credit lines. To get approved, you’ll still need to support your loan application with strong gross sales, bank statements, and a credit history clear of bankruptcies or judgments. Otherwise, they’d be stuck with a bunch of bad debts.

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Know-It Global

JUNE 20, 2023

It involves managing credit sales and making informed credit decisions, ensuring timely payment from customers, and minimising bad debt. A well-designed policy minimises the risk of bad debts and cash flow issues and also serves as a reference for employees involved in credit decisions and collections.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

MARCH 26, 2024

Meanwhile, the number of commercial bankruptcies is accelerating. In February, Epiq Bankruptcy reported that commercial Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings climbed 118 percent year-over-year. Ongoing Portfolio Monitoring was critical to turning up the customer intelligence that avoided a huge bad debt loss.

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